Portrait medal of Jacques Boyceau (obverse); Allegory of the Cycle of Life (reverse), model, 1624 (contemporary cast), French, Bronze (copper alloy with reddish brown cuprite patina), Diam. 7.2 cm, wt. 81.31 g., Medals, Abraham Dupré (1604–1647) , Paris, Jacques Boyceau was a French garden designer and the superintendent of the royal gardens under King Louis XIII of France. His treatise on gardening (Traité du jardinage), published posthumously in 1638, was influential in the development of the seventeenth-century French garden
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Portrait medal, Jacques Boyceau, obverse, Allegory, Cycle, Life, reverse, model, 1624, contemporary cast, French, Bronze, copper alloy, reddish brown cuprite patina, Diam, 7.2 cm, wt, 81.31 g, Medals, Abraham Dupré, 1604–1647, Paris, French garden, designer, superintendent, royal gardens, under, King, Louis, XIII, France, treatise, gardening, Traité du, jardinage, published posthumously, 1638, influential, development, seventeenth-century French, garden
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