Item NU 34452 Plaque - Veuve des Marins [Sailors' Widows], by Georges Prud'homme, France, 1919

Summary

Plaque featuring Veuve des Marins (Sailors' Widows) due to shipwreck, by Georges Prud'homme, France, 1919.
Mint: Paris Mint, France.

Physical Description

A bronze plaque in a tau cross (t-shaped) shape, depicting a woman looking out to a rough sea at a shipwreck on the obverse, and a group of draped women walking to a church on the reverse.

Obverse Description

A bare-footed woman with a hand to her head standing on a cliff, looking out at a rough sea with a ship sinking. Seagull flying at her feet.

Reverse Description

Two groups of veiled women, a group of three at the front with a group of two behind, with a single third person in the distance walking a curved path towards a church; artist's name at right, G. PRUD'HOMME.