Georges Duval

Georges Charles Victor Duval also known as Georges Duval (1851-1916) was a French architect, designer among others of banknotes, watercolourist and illustrator.

Born in Paris on October 6, 1851, Georges Charles Victor Duval was admitted to the Beaux-Arts in Paris in November 1870, in the class of architect Louis-Jules André, school where he was enrolled until 1874. He practiced drawing and watercolor, among others under the patronage of Camille Chazal. On December 21, 1877, at the town hall of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, he married Juliette Marguerite Descours, daughter-in-law of Gustave Macé, police commissioner and head of the Sureté and who was a playwright and poet under the name of Juliette de Wils (a price of the French academy bore his name).

Undoubtedly through Chazal, he worked, first alongside Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis, on behalf of the Banque de France and produced numerous watercolors intended for national and foreign currency vignettes, from the years 18806. He also executed the graphic compositions of the stamps of workers' and peasant pensions, bonds for the State railways, etc. Appointed to the courts of Paris thanks to the support of Macé, he also records crime scenes for criminal expertise.

He exhibited drawings and architectural views in the form of watercolors at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1896, inspired by the French provinces. He became a member of the Society of French Artists in 1907.

Appointed an academy officer in 1898, then a public education officer in 1900, Duval was also a member of the Central Society of Architects (1890-1912), and decorated with the Order of the Star of Romania.

Duval died on February 6, 1916 in Lyon, going to his second home located in Saint-Raphaël.

B124b face
B124b face
Algeria
B124b (
  • MK9b
  • P-78b
) 20 Francs Algerian Woman
Purple. Boys and Cactus
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1924-32
  • 165 x 105mm
  • Sig 4

  • Watermark: Arab text in crescent moon; Moorish Woman's head in profile

B127c face
B127c face
Algeria
B127c (
  • MK27c
  • P-81b
) 100 Francs
Violet. Two Boys, Bedouin with Camel; Allegory of France teaching a child
  • Printer: BdF
  • 5/26/1933
  • 182 x 116mm
  • Sig 6

  • Watermark: Moorish Woman's head in profile; Arab text in crescent moon

B133a face
B133a face
Algeria
B133a (
  • MK48
  • P-90a
) 5000 Francs Muslim Woman, Allegorial Woman
Moorish women with vases
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/22/1942
  • 236 x 138mm
  • Sig 8

  • Watermark: Moorish Woman's head in profile; Rosette


B135b face
B135b face
Algeria
B135b (
  • MK10a
  • P-92a
) 20 Francs Algerian Woman
Purple. Boys and Cactus
  • Printer: BdF
  • 4/20/1944
  • 126 x 91mm
  • Sig 5
  • Date flanked by letters

  • Watermark: BANQUE DE L'ALGERIE pattern

B136a face
B136a face
Algeria
B136a (
  • MK36
  • P-93
) 500 Francs
Blue. Two Boys, Bedouin with Camel; Allegory of France teaching a child
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1942-1945
  • 196 x 119mm

  • Watermark: Banque de l'Algerie

B138a face
B138a face
Algeria
B138a (
  • MK37
  • P-95
) 500 Francs
Violet. Two Boys, Bedouin with Camel; Allegory of France teaching a child
  • Printer: BdF
  • 9/15/1944
  • 196 x 119mm

  • Watermark: BANQUE DE L'ALGERIE text

B125 face
B125 face
French Indochina
B125 (
  • KM132
  • P-40
) 5 Piastres Saigon Issue
Purple, black. Ships; Dragon, Chinese text
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1/28/1920
  • 180 x 94mm
  • Buff paper
  • Sig 3

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile

B102Gf face
B102Gf face
French West Africa
B102Gf (
  • LK69
  • P-7Db
) 25 Francs Grand-Bassam
Brown, Olive, Blue. Elephant head and trees; Arabic Text
  • 7/12/1923
  • 203 x 120mm
  • Sig 4

  • Watermark: Lion in crescent moon
  • Desfontaines, H. DEL
  • Duval, G. FEC
  • Florian, E. SC
    • (F)
B103De face
B103De face
French West Africa
B103De (
  • LK85
  • P-9Bc
) 50 Francs Dakar
Blue, Yellow, Red. Elephant head and trees; Arabic Text
  • 3/14/1929
  • 203 x 120mm
  • Sig 5

  • Watermark: Lion in crescent moon
  • Desfontaines, H. DEL
  • Duval, G. FEC
  • Florian, E. SC
    • (F)
B104Dd face
B104Dd face
French West Africa
B104Dd (
  • LK108
  • P-11Bb
) 100 Francs Dakar
Red, Pink, Orange. Elephant head and trees; Arabic Text
  • 9/24/1926
  • 203 x 120mm
  • Sig 4

  • Watermark: Lion in crescent moon
  • Desfontaines, H. DEL
  • Duval, G. FEC
  • Florian, E. SC
    • (F)
B209c face
B209c face
Morocco
B209c (
  • MK512
  • P-18b
) 20 Francs Hassan Tower at Rabat
Blue, Brown.
  • Printer: BdF
  • 11/14/1941
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Lion in crescent, Star

B211e2 face
B211e2 face
Romania
B211e2 (
  • P-19a
) 5 Lei Seated Woman with Distaff
Violet, Blue, Pink. Woman and Child Picking Apples
  • Printer: National Bank of Belgium
  • 3/25/1920

  • Watermark: Trajen; Roma
B217f face
B217f face
Romania
B217f (
  • P-22a
) 500 Lei Woman and Boy carrying Fruit, Reclining Woman
Farm Women carrying Hoes
  • Printer: Banca Naţională a României
  • 8/30/1918

  • Watermark: Trajen; Roma
BNP204 face
BNP204 face
Romania
BNP204 20 Lei Souvenir
Allegories
  • Printer: Banca Naţională a României
  • 12/1/2021
  • Polymer

B205a face
B205a face
Serbia
B205a (
  • P-10a
) 10 Dinara Woman Seated with Musical Instrument and Child
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1/2/1893

  • Watermark: Helmeted head of Miloš Obilić
B208d face
B208d face
Tunisia
B208d (
  • MK406d
  • P-6b
) 20 Francs Algerian Woman
Purple. Boys and Cactus
  • Printer: BdF
  • 5/17/1941
  • Sig 2

  • Watermark: Moorish woman’s head

B217c face
B217c face
Tunisia
B217c (
  • MK407c
  • P-18
) 20 Francs Algerian Woman, Boys and Cactus
  • Printer: BdF
  • 2/2/1945
  • Sig 2
  • Sig titles L'INSPECTEUR GÉNÉRAL and CAISSIER PRINCIPAL
  • Date without letters

B217c face
B217c face
Tunisia
B217c (
  • MK407c
  • P-18
) 20 Francs Algerian Woman
Purple. Boys and Cactus
  • Printer: BdF
  • 2/2/1945
  • Sig 2
  • Sig titles SECRETAIRE GÉNÉRAL and CAISSIER PRINCIPAL
  • Date without letters

  • Watermark: BANQUE DE L’ALGÉRIE pattern

B221a face
B221a face
Tunisia
B221a (
  • MK433
  • P-31
) 1000 Francs Minerva and other Allegorical Figures
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1942
  • Sig 9
  • Series 2-54

  • Watermark: Two faces in profile


  • Rousseau, L. SC
    • (B)
F.2.29 face
F.2.29 face
France
F.2.29 (
  • F.2.29
  • P-70
) 5 Francs Blue
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/2/1915
  • 125 x 80mm
  • Sig 2
  • Astrological sign "Leo" for July

  • Watermark: Woman's head in profile, 'Banque de France' text from back of note

F.3.12 face
F.3.12 face
France
F.3.12 (
  • F.3.12
  • P-72d
) 5 Francs Violet
Rose, Purple. Allegory of France; Dock worker carrying a sack up a ladder
  • Printer: BdF
  • 5/8/1928
  • 125 x 80mm
  • Sig 3

  • Watermark: Soldier from the Marseillaise de Rude


F.4.15 face
F.4.15 face
France
F.4.15 (
  • F.4.15
  • P-83
) 5 Francs Violet
Rose, Purple. Allegory of France; Dock worker carrying a sack up a ladder
  • Printer: BdF
  • 11/28/1940
  • 125 x 80mm
  • Sig 4

  • Watermark: Soldier from the Marseillaise de Rude


F.6.11 face
F.6.11 face
France
F.6.11 (
  • F.6.11
  • P-73d
) 10 Francs Minerva
Blue. Effigy of the goddess Minerva; Peasant woman resting
  • Printer: BdF
  • 10/23/1926
  • 138 x 88mm
  • Sig 3

  • Watermark: Mercury
F.7.1 face
F.7.1 face
France
F.7.1 (
  • F.7.1
  • P-84
) 10 Francs Minerva
Blue. Effigy of the goddess Minerva; Peasant woman resting
  • Printer: BdF
  • 2/2/1939
  • 138 x 88mm
  • Sig 4

  • Watermark: Mercury

F.11.01 face
F.11.01 face
France
F.11.01 (
  • F.11.01
  • P-74
) 20 Francs Bayard
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1916
  • 160 x 95mm
  • Denomination in Blue

  • Watermark: Bayard
F.14.37 face
F.14.37 face
France
F.14.37 (
  • F.14.37
  • P-64g
) 50 Francs Blue and Rose
Allegories of Industry and Agriculture
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/12/1924
  • 178 x 123mm

  • Watermark: Woman's Head

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