“La Musique” — Signed Art Nouveau Bronze Medal by Adolphe Rivet, French

A struck bronze art medal depicting the allegory of Music as a robed maiden in profile, cradling a classical lyre against a palm frond, inscribed LA MUSIQUE and signed A. Rivet in the field. Adolphe Rivet (b. Périgueux, 1855) was a Paris Mint medalist, and this same model is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautifully modeled Belle Époque bronze with a warm honey patina — the kind of small sculptural object that reads instantly on a shelf or in A frame. Hand-sourced in France.