Object details
Accession number
S27w13
Primary Creator
Louis Oscar Roty
(Paris, 1846 - 1911, Paris)
Full title
Medal: Youth Plighting His Troth
Creation Date
1895
Object Case
Sargent / Whistler Case
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Inscribed (obverse): SEMPER
Signed and dated (obverse): O. Roty 1895
Dimensions
4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Display Media
Silver
Dimension Notes
Diameter: 4.13 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 249.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston: 1977), p. 161, no. 205.
Tanya Karpiak. "The medallic secrets of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." The Medal (Autumn 2014), pp. 17-18, fig. 5.
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