
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt:... signature. Furtwangler has pointed out that it cannot he that of Phrygillos of Thurium because the style is quite different to his. (To be continued.) BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEDALLISTS Coin, Gem, and Seal Engravers, Ancient and Modern, with References to their "Works. B.C.500--A. D. 1900. (Including the names oj several hitherto Unpublished Artists.) One hundred-and-sixteenth Article. (Continued front col. 10J40.) ODDART, NICOLAS (Belg.). Issuer of a Jeton in the eighteenth century (J. Th. de Raadt, Quelqucs observations sur Nicolas Otidard el son jeton, etude hcraldo-historique, Bull. Cer. arched. Malines, I, 1889, 34-44). OUDINE, EUGENE ANDRE (French). Sculptor, Medallist, and Coinengraver, born at Paris. 1. January 1810, died there, 12. April 1889. He was a pupil of Galle, Petitot, and Ingres. In 1831, he obtained the Prix de Rome for Medal-engraving, the subject being Oedipus explaining the enigma ot the Sphinx; 1837, a Medal of the 2,,J class; 1839 and 1843, Medals ot the 1" class; 1848 and 1855, Medals of the 2nd class; 16. August 1857, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He married a grand-daughter of Andre Galle, the medallist. Oudine, says L Weber, was one of the first medallists to make struck medals (by the help of the reducing machine) in the modern French style, having something of the "soft" appearance of a cast medal. The following is a list ot the artist's productions in their order of exhibit at the Paris Salons from 1837 to 1882, taken from Chavignerie and Auvray's Dictionary: 1837. Statue of a man, plaster;--Frame of medals;--1839. Bust of Mme Oudin£, marble;--Commemorative medal of the Amnesty, with bust of LouisPhilippe I., and BL. Royal Clemency arresting the course of Justice;-Portrait-medal of Cam...
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