1936, France. THE SEINE. By Marcel Renard. AE 59mm. Obv: A nude female personification of the Seine with a ship in the background. Rev: Four shields. Cat. Gen. III 338/A. $95.
Marcel Renard, sculptor and medallist was born at Lyon in 1892. He studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Art de Lyon and then at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He spent time in the ateliers of Boucher and Patey. In 1923 he won the Premier Second Prix de Rome and a gold medal at the Salon des Artistes D?corateurs. He died in 1974.