“La Musique” — Signed Art Nouveau Bronze Medal by Adolphe Rivet, French comings-soon a phenomenon caused by the

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An exquisite 19th-century French School portrait rendered in pastel and conte on paper laid to canvas

This piece was acquired in Paris

Very good antique condition with light

“La Musique” — Signed Art Nouveau Bronze Medal by Adolphe Rivet, French comings-soon a phenomenon caused by theA struck bronze art medal depicting the allegory of Music as a robed maiden in profile, cradling a classical lyre against a palm frond, inscribed LA MUSIQUE and signed A. Rivet in the field. Adolphe Rivet (b. Prigueux, 1855) was a Paris Mint medalist, and this same model is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautifully modeled Belle poque bronze with a warm honey patina the kind of small sculptural object that reads instantly