SINCONA Auction 25
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Description
Maria Luigia d'Austria, 1815-1847 Gold medal in weight of 12 ducats 1818. Naples Commemorating the building of the new bridge over the River Taro. Dies by Giovanni Antonio Santarelli. M?LVDOV?ARCH? AVSTR? D?G?PARM?PLAC?ET?VAST?DVX? Bust with diadem to r., below the name of the medallist: SANTARELLI F. Rev. The new bridge over the river. In exergue in three lines: TARO IRMIVS DENIQVE REPRESSO M.DCCC.XVIII. 42.29 g. Bramsen 1881. Med. Risorgimento 241. Johnson 8. Slg. Julius 3640 (dort in Silber). Very rare. Almost uncirculated. Cabinet piece.
Details
Maria Luigia was Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Franz II. and wife of Napoleon I. Despite loathing Napoleon she acquiesced for reasons of state and married him on 1. April 1810 in the Louvre Palace. After Napoleon's defeat, she received the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza as well as Guastalla from the Congress of Vienna. She entered into a relationship with Count von Neippberg, whom she bore several children. Officially she remained married to Napoleon until his death. In 1821 she entered into a morganatic marriage with the count and her children became Princes of Montenuovo - a numismatically well-known name. In 1834 she married the Count of Bombelles, a minister at her court in Parma. From then on until her death she became a caring mother of the nation.