1945, France. PRESENTATION MEDAL OF LA SOCI?T? DU LOUVRE TO ITS PRISONERS OF WAR. By Pierre Turin. Bronze 68mm. Obv: View of the ?le de la Cit?. Rev: Inscription within a wreath. Cf. Cat. Gen. vol. 3 379/G. Extremely fine. $75. Sorry, SOLD (April, 2019)
Pierre Turin was born in 1891. He was a student at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He studied under Henri Auguste Jules Patey and Fr?deric-Charles Victor de Vernon. In 1920 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving. Turin died in 1968.