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 1880. 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 23, 1916 in Lyon, while 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

(F)
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; Arab text in crescent moon

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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; Rosette

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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

(F)
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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” pattern

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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” pattern

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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: Profile of Man's head

(F)
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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
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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
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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
(F)
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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

(F)
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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
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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
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BNP204 face
BNP204 face
Romania
BNP204 20 Lei Souvenir
Allegories
  • Printer: Banca Naţională a României
  • 12/1/2021
  • Polymer

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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
(F)
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

(F)
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

(F)
B221a face
B221a face
Tunisia
B221a (
  • MK433
  • P-31
) 1000 Francs Minerva and other Allegorical Figures
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1942
  • 180 x 111mm
  • Sig 9
  • Series 2-54

  • Watermark: Two faces in profile

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B950a face
B950a face
France
B950a (
  • 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
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B952d face
B952d face
France
B952d (
  • 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

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(B)
B952f face
B952f face
France
B952f (
  • 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

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B953d face
B953d face
France
B953d (
  • 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
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B953f face
B953f face
France
B953f (
  • 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)
B954a face
B954a face
France
B954a (
  • F.11.01
  • P-74
) 20 Francs Bayard
  • Printer: BdF
  • 9/22/1916
  • 160 x 95mm
  • Denomination in Blue

  • Watermark: Bayard
(F)
B943g face
B943g face
France
B943g (
  • F.14.37
  • P-64g
) 50 Francs Bleu et Rose
Allegories of Industry and Agriculture
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/12/1924
  • 178 x 123mm

  • Watermark: Woman's head
(F)

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