Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)
1911
Alfred Borrel
Alfred Borrel (French, 1836–1927)
Decorative Art and Design
Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836), 1911. Alfred Borrel (French, 1836–1927). Bronze; overall: 5.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lawrence Hitchcock 1919.99 The French sculptor and medalist Alfred Borrel (1836-1927) created this portrait medal to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rouget de L'Isle's death in 1836, the same year in which the sculptor was born. Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle composed the French national anthem, La Marseillaises, in 1792 in Strasbourg after France had declared war on Austria.
- Maker/Artist
- Borrel, Alfred
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 5.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Obverse: raised inscription: ROUGET DE L'ISLE 1760 1836; inscribed lower left: A. BORREL Reverse: [score and all verses of "La Marseillaises"]
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1919.99
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lawrence Hitchcock
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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