Chaplin is regarded as the master who rediscovered French medallic art. Thanks to him, cast medals and plaques regained their rightful place in European art. Towards the end of the 1870s, Chaplin developed the realistic style of medallion portraiture, the foundations of which were laid by Hubert Ponskarme . As Chaplin was not a follower of the three-dimensional Romantic style of David d'Angers, his work in low relief gave his medals a more painterly appearance than sculpture, allowing his figures to interact actively with the surrounding background of the medal's surface. He energetically, almost perfectly sets his subjects in a composition with free, broad lines, making extensive use of feminine and floral motifs and ornamentation
Chaplin is regarded as the master who rediscovered French medallic art. Thanks to him, cast medals and plaques regained their rightful place in European art. Towards the end of the 1870s, Chaplin developed the realistic style of medallion portraiture, the foundations of which were laid by Hubert Ponskarme . As Chaplin was not a follower of the three-dimensional Romantic style of David d'Angers, his work in low relief gave his medals a more painterly appearance than sculpture, allowing his figures to interact actively with the surrounding background of the medal's surface. He energetically, almost perfectly sets his subjects in a composition with free, broad lines, making extensive use of feminine and floral motifs and ornamentation
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