103327 | FRANCE. "Le Bain" bronze Plaque.

103327  |  FRANCE. "Le Bain" bronze Plaque. Issued 1903 by the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française (40mm x 71mm, 74.59 g, 12h). By Abel Lafleur at the Paris mint.

 

Nude female standing right and bent slightly at the waste, washing herself in a creek // Another female, this time seminude, seated left within a bedroom, with her back facing and combing her hair. Edge: «cornucopia» BRONZE «lizard» 194.

 

Maier 24; Jones, Art of the Medal, 331; Forrer III, p. 267. Gem Mint State. Tan-brown surfaces, with an alluring matte aspect. A very rare and exceptionally appealing Art Nouveau/Beaux Arts issue from a small mintage of just 132 examples.

 

The write-up about this medal in Nicolas Maier's L'art de le médaille en France, 1870–1940 mentions that "...Lafleur preferred depictions of women in his work. The SAMF plaquette is one of the finest versions of his favourite motif."

 

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Upload: 19 November 2025.