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Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)
Alfred Borrel1911
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)
- Creator: Alfred Borrel (French, 1836-1927)
- Date Created: 1911
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 5.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: Mr. Lawrence Hitchcock, Cleveland.
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.899
- Medium: bronze
- Inscriptions: Obverse: raised inscription: ROUGET DE L'ISLE 1760 1836; inscribed lower left: A. BORREL Reverse: [score and all verses of "La Marseillaises"]
- Fun Fact: Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle composed the French national anthem, <em>La Marseillaises, </em>in 1792 in Strasbourg after France had declared war on Austria.
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: France
- Credit Line: Gift of Lawrence Hitchcock
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1919.899
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