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Coudray, Marie-Alexandre-Lucien
(b Paris, 21 Feb 1865; d 1932). French medallist. He trained in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Gabriel-Jules Thomas, Henri-Emile Allouard (1844–1929) and Hubert Ponscarme, winning the Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1893. His Orpheus at the Entrance to the Underworld, struck for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, was immensely popular and is to this day one of the best known of French Art Nouveau medals. Coudray’s other works included a series of highly sentimental plaquettes, such as Agriculture (1905), Flora (1905) and the Charmer (1906); his Gallia Tutrix (1904) was a medal celebrating the beneficent effects of French colonial rule.
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