Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)

Alfred Borrel

Date
1911
Medium
bronze
Culture
France
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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. Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle composed the French national anthem, La Marseillaises, in 1792 in Strasbourg after France had declared war on Austria.

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