Innocent XI, by Giovanni Hamerani, bust right wearing mozetta, camauro and stole, A.XIII, signed below truncation IO HAMERANVS, rev. FORTITVDO MEA DOMINI, Fortitude seated, her right arm leaning on a shield and holding a broken column, a lion beside her, 36.5mm. (Bart.689; Bon.XXIII; L.1477; Maz.350; TN.XXXVII, 5), good very fine, an attractive original example with old toning

Innocent XI, by Giovanni Hamerani, bust right wearing mozetta, camauro and stole, A.XIII, signed below truncation IO HAMERANVS, rev. FORTITVDO MEA DOMINI, Fortitude seated, her right arm leaning on a shield and holding a broken column, a lion beside her, 36.5mm. (Bart.689; Bon.XXIII; L.1477; Maz.350; TN.XXXVII, 5), good very fine, an attractive original example with old toning

细节

Innocent XI, by Giovanni Hamerani, bust right wearing mozetta, camauro and stole, A.XIII, signed below truncation IO HAMERANVS, rev. FORTITVDO MEA DOMINI, Fortitude seated, her right arm leaning on a shield and holding a broken column, a lion beside her, 36.5mm. (Bart.689; Bon.XXIII; L.1477; Maz.350; TN.XXXVII, 5), good very fine, an attractive original example with old toning

拍品专文

The annual medal of 1689, just two years after the celebrations following the successes of Charles of Lorraine in Hungary, is a plea to the western powers to continue their alliance against the Turks. Suddenly however the old Holy League was in crisis, and Hungary, under Leopold I, found itself, as so often, alone in the struggle. The reverse is taken from an oval fresco by Annibale Carracci on the walls of the Farnese Gallery (see J.R.Martin, The Farnese Gallery, Princeton 1965, fig.74).