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Guillaume Martin [2]
Periodo di attività: 1563 – 1572		Sesso: M
Varianti del nome documentate:
- Guillaume Martin
Il Forrer (1902-30, pp. 590-594) riporta: On the 24. March 1557 (1558) the Cour des Monnaies authorized him, at the same time as Claude de Héry "a faire chef-d'œuvre de tailleur et graveur général", but the work of his competitor obtained the preference. Martin's first production on record is a gold medal, commissioned by Henry II., in 1558, with the King's bust, which was to be presented, after the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, to the German troops in his service. Specimens exist in silver, which give a very good idea of the artist's style. In the same year, the artist was entrusted with the execution of dies with portraits and emblems of Francis II. and Mary Stuart ("des coins pour meetre en tenailles, pour monnoyer et faire pieces de monnoyes a leurs portraitz et devises, etc.") (...) Seven years later, Martin was commissioned to prepare dies for "large gold pieces of ten Ecus" with busts of the King (Charles IX) and Dowager Queen. None of these are extant, but a silver piece of 1565, in the French National Collection, was no doubt struck from the same dies (...) On the death of Marc Bechot, Engraver-general of the coins (1558) Martin applied for his post, but, as we have seen, Claude de Héry was appointed. The artist's merit however obtained recognition under the reign of Charles IX., when in 1565 he was granted, by letters patent, the right of cutting dies for the coins of the Kingdom, and a yearly stipend of three hundred livres. The creation of this novel office raised strong objections on the part of the Cour des Monnaies, and it is difficult to say whether the artist ever really exercised his right. In 1565, Martin engraved dies for the Ducats and Testons of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, and contemporary documents prove that he filled the office of Engraver-general of the coins of Navarre, circ. 1564-1571. In 1565 he engraved two jetons with bust of Jeanne d'Albret. The 1/2 Teston is by him also, and probably various other coins of Navarre. The original puncheon of Jeanne d'Albret's Teston is preserved in the Paris Mint Museum. Both Brucher and Beaucousin seem to have engraved dies from models or puncheons by Martin.

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Attività di zecca
Pau n.s. (1563 c. – 1572 c.) Engraver-general [EN] Il Forrer (1902-30, I, p. 299): As Guillaume Martin occupied the post of Engraver-general to the Queen of Navarre, it is possible that [Pierre] Brucher, or Bruchier, as his name sometimes occurs, only worked from the designs of his superior, or copied his dies. Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 299

Factoids
Morte, data 1590 1590 Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 III, p. 590 Occupazione Scultore, orefice e incisore di Parigi 1558 c. – 1590 Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 III, p. 590

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