Title: Louis XVI, King of France
Object type: Medallion
Date: 1779–80
Artist:  Jean-Baptiste Nini 
Artist bio: Italian, Urbino 1717–1786 Chaumont-sur-Loire
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood
Dimensions: Diameter (without frame): 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Miniature
Credit line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1952
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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