418, Lot: 563. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. CU Medal (43x67mm, 93.5 g, 12h). Voyages d’etudes medicales. By Raoul Bénard. Dated 1922. Presented to Dr. M. Milhaud. Mother standing right with son, running hand through spring water; engraved in exergue, DR. M. MILHAUD / Rooster standing right; hospital and countryside in background; below, VOYAGES/ D’ETUDES MEDICALES/ AUX STATIONS/ HYDROMINERALES/ ET CLIMATIQUES above vignette of mineral water spa; in exergue, VIRES EDISCE MUNDI and monogram. Edge: CUIVRE. EF.

Collector’s note: “This lovely and rare medal was engraved for a Medical Conference about Mineral Water in the twenties.

Raoul Bénard (1881-1961) was pupil to the famous medallists Chaplain, Vernon and Patey and won the Great Prize of Rome in 1911. Bénard was awarded a silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1922 and a gold medal in 1924. He became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1927.”