103325 | FRANCE. "Puberté" bronze Medal.

103325  |  FRANCE. "Puberté" bronze Medal. Issued 1907 by the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française (57mm, 89.76 g, 12h). By Louis Dejean at the Paris mint.

 

Three nude females, one standing facing, one crouching right, and one reclining left, within woodland setting // Nude male standing facing before indeterminate backdrop, with arms raised and hands crossed behind his head . Edge: «cornucopia» BRONZE «lizard» 166.

 

Maier 44; Silich III, 989. Gem Mint State. Deep tan-brown surfaces, with some darker hues accentuating the varied relief. A very rare and exceptionally appealing Art Nouveau/Beaux Arts issue from a small mintage of just 109 examples.

 

The write-up about this medal in Nicolas Maier's L'art de le médaille en France, 1870–1940 mentions that "...In his second work for the SAMF, Dejean again turned to his preferred subject of the nude figure. The working title for the medal was Puberté ('Puberty')."

 

Upload: 19 November 2025.