After the peace of Tolintedo, the treaty of Campo Formio, and the arrival of the specimens of art, which had been one of the conditions of that treaty, Duvivier, a medal engraver, presented the institution with a medal, commemorating the arrival at Paris of those glorious trophies of victory. It represents, on one side, the head of Napoleon in a general's uniform, with the following
Bonaparte, General in Chief of the
French Army in Italy.
UNDERNEATH.
Presented to the National Institution
by B. Duvivier, Paris.
On the reverse is the General, in a warlike costume, mounted on a charger at full speed, bringing back the olive of peace, accompanied by Minerva and Justice, followed by Victory, who crowns him, and is carrying the statue of Apollo.
Arts and Sciences grateful. (1798.)
Peace signed Year VI. of the French Republic.