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He created an extensive collection of French and Italian Renaissance decorative art from 1825, comprising around 750 objects, including furniture, glass, ceramics, bronzes, enamels and ivories. In the late 1840s Soulages moved back to Toulouse, where Henry Cole viewed his collection in 1855. Subsequent sale negotiations led to the production of a catalogue and two exhibitions in England at the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House, and at the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition respectively, both enhancing the celebrity of the collection, and resulting in its acquisition for the South Kensington Museum. Soulages died on 13 October 1857, aged 54. \r\n","physicalDescription":"This medal has an obverse only and depicts a bust portrait of a monk unknown. In the field the letters 'R. 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It was bought from the Soulages collection in 1865. \r\nThe dealer John Webb was despatched to examine and report on the collection, which was purchased between 1859 and 1865 in installments for £11,000 with the assistance of 73 subscribers.\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Medal, bronze, a monk unknown, Italian, late 15th or early 16th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1865. <font -u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol. 1.</font> London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 40"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Robinson, John Charles. <font -u>Catalogue of the Soulages Collection.</font> London: Chapman & Hall, 1856, p. 150"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hill, G. 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