Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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DURAN, Mile JANE MARGUERITE (French). Contemporary Sculptor
and Medallist, born at Toulouse; pupil of Victor Icart. At the Paris
Salon 1913 she exhibited a group of portraits modelled in plaster and
a reduction in galvano.
DURAND, AMtiDE PIERRE (B.D.M., Vol. I, 19o4, p. 668). Sculptor and Medallist; born in Paris 1789, died in September 1873.
Consult also Thieme's Allgem. Kiinstlerlexikon, X, I99.
DURAND, PHILIPPE FORTUNE (French). Medallist and Wood Carver,
born in Paris I. May 1798, died in Lyons 25. June I876. Among
his medals and jetons for numerous public and private societies I
may mention those for the Compagnie des gondoles a vapeur sur
la Saone, I829; - Societe d'assurances contre l'Incendie, 1839;Compagnie du Rhone, 844; - Societe du Griffon, I848; - Cristallerie de Lyon, I863. Also Portraits of Jean Kleberg, Jacquard
(after Foyatier's statue), etc. Cf. Charvet, Medailles et Jetons de la
Ville de Lyon.
DURER, ALBRECHT (B.D.M., Vol. I, 1904, p. 669). A most
valuable contribution to Dtrer's activity as a medallist was published
by Dr Georg Habich in the "Jahrbuch der Kon. Preussischen Kunstsammlungen ", 1906, Heft I. The three well-known medals, which
are only uniface goldsmith's models: Diurer's father, 15I4 - the
so-called Agnes Diirer, but really an Ideal head, possibly Lucretia
- and the so-called Wohlgemuth, Dr Habich maintains are by
Diirer, and have been correctly ascribed to him by A. von Sallet.
The medal of Jakob Fugger attributed to the great master by Erman,
is more likely the work of Valentin Maler. But by Durer are no
doubt also: a Honestone model formerly in the Felix Collection,
with portrait to 1., bearing great analogy with Dfirer's father, and
dated 5 I4; - the original of the Willibald Pirckheimer medal,
1517, which is only known from poor copies; - a medal of Sebaldus Schreier, I512, in the South Kensington Museum, - and
finally the beautiful Nuremberg Proclamation Medal of Charles V.
which may have been executed in collaboration with the engraver
Hans Krafft.
DURIG, JEAN JOSEPH (B.D.M., Vol. I, I904, p. 678). Lineengraver and Draughtsman, born at Strassburg I3. October 1750,
died at Lille 16. February I816. Besides the medal on the Confederation of Lille (6. 6. 790), there is one by him on the Provincial
Assembly of the County of Flanders, and Medallions with bust of
Louis XVI., View of Cambrai Cathedral, etc. His copper-plates are
better known.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. -- U. Thieme, Allgem. Kiinlstlerlexikon, X, 215.
DURING, HANS (Germ.). Mint-master at Wernigerode, 1563-64.