Coin Monaco 2 Euros Commémo. Proof 2018 - François-Joseph Bosio

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Tache en forme de point sur la boîte en carton (marque d'autocollant)

Born in Monaco in 1768, he was a portrait artist of Napoleon I and later a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was appointed first sculptor to King Louis XVIII in 1821. In addition to the statue of Napoleon on the column of the Grande Armée in Boulogne-sur-Mer, his major works can be found in Paris: twenty bas-reliefs for the column of the Place Vendôme, the equestrian statue of Louis XIV at the Place des Victoires for which he received the title of baron, Henri IV as a child, Aristaeus and Hercules overpowering Achelous, all three in the Louvre Museum. The piece is based on an original sculpture representing the Nymph Salmacis.

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