Henri Dropsy France bronze plaque of Pan
by: Henri Dropsy, France (1885 - 1969)
material: bronze
size: 3 1/8" x just over 1 1/4"
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Henri Dropsy studied at the École des Beaux-Arts beginning in 1900, learning first from his father Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy. In 1908 Dropsy won the premier “Second Grand Prix de Rome” for drafts of medals. After 1910 he was self-employed artistically. The First World War initially inhibited his artistic development until he traveled to Italy and North Africa on a scholarship in 1922.
In 1930 Dropsy became a professor and for 25 years director of the department of medal art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1942, he was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. After the war, the Paris mint eventually honored his work. In 1947, he was a professor for one year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cairo, Egypt. Dropsy designed the medal that was gifted to Queen Elizabeth II by Vincent Auriol, President of France from 1947-54, on the occasion of her coronation. He created another medal a few years later commemorating the Queen’s visit to France.
