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The most important French medalist of the second half of the nineteenth century, Roty studied at the Nicole des Beaux-Arts with Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Augustin Dumont and Hubert Ponscarme. He won the Prix de Rome in 1875, became a professor at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1888, and its president in 1897. See Forrer 5, pp. 228-49; Thieme-Becker 29, p. 106. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976