A gilt and silvered bronze framed medallion

A Louis XVI gilt bronze medallion in its original gilt and silvered bronze rectangular frame – circa 1780

Inscribed ALBERTINE NEE BARONNE DE NIVENHEIM 1768

After the terracotta model by Giovanni-Battista Nini (1717-1786)

Frame height: 25.7 cm. (10 in.)     Frame width: 18.3 cm. (7 ¼ in.)

Comparative Literature

Jean-Baptiste Nini, D’Urbino aux rives de la Loire. Paysages et visages européens, exh. cat. Urbino, Palazzo Ducale, 16 Jun – 30 Aug 2001 and Blois, Château Royal de Blois, 27 Oct 2001 – 27 Jan 2002, pp. 185-186.

Several museums include Nini’s terracotta model in their collections:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 133.2)
• The Petit Palais, Paris (inv. PPM711)
• The Musée Carnavalet, Paris, Henriette Bouvier bequest (inv. S3406)
• The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Blois

A version in bronze is at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (inv. 1957.14.1177).