Erasme (c.1899)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911)

Erasme (Erasmus)
c.1899
One-sided bronze medallion, diameter 13.3 cm
Musée d’OrsayParis

Inscription:

Monogram: AL
legend in Greek and Latin: [ten kreitto ta sougrammata deieei: imago ad v […] effigie]
in the field: ER / ROT / EXPRESSA

Compare:

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543)
Erasmus writing
1528
Musée du LouvreParis

 

 

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911)
Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein
s.d.
National Gallery of ArtWashington

 

 

See also:

• Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536)