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Medal for science and art up for auction

A specimen of the Danish medal 'Ingenio et arti' is up for auction at Bruun-Rasmussen on March 15.
Medal for science and art up for auction

Ingenio et arti medal
(Photo: Bruun Rasmussen)

The medal was awarded to the opera singer Sara Jane Cahier (1875-1951) on 31. October 1909.
Frederik VIII only awarded nine of these medals - eight to women and one to a man.


Cahier was American by birth but was educated in France. She was for a long time associated with the court opera in Vienna with the title of Austro-Hungarian royal and imperial court opera singer. She often performed in Copenhagen.


Read more about the medal Ingenio et arti and its recipients in Tage Kaarsted's book "For videnskab og kunst" (in Danish), published by Syddansk Universitetsforlag in 1991.


See the medal at Bruun Rasmussen.