Toon Dupuis - VPK Jhr. Dr J. Loudon

Below is a description of the medal from the handy sculpture.

Dupuis, who comes from Belgium, settled in the Netherlands before the First World War and was very successful as a sculptor. He had a sense of style and grandeur that appealed to his clients. They inevitably came from higher circles - because who else gives orders? Jr. Dr John Loudon (1866-1955) was a Dutch politician and diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs during the First World War. During this period he was entrusted with the care of maintaining Dutch neutrality: a considerable task. The seventy-one-year-old's tapered shoulder piece, the space given to the face in profile and the beautifully recessed ear; everything points to the great mastery of the sculptor's mastery. No statement can be made about the person depicted; psychology was not Dupuis's aim either. The reverse reads, as with Cort van der Linden, `Civi optime de patria merito'. Dedicated to the citizen who has made an extraordinary contribution to the fatherland. The viewer must remember that.