Limoges, attributed to the workshop of the Master of the...
Limoges, attributed to the workshop of the Master of the Triptych of Orleans, circa 1500.
Curved plate "Kiss of Peace" painted in polychrome enamel with gold highlights of a Lamentation: the Piece with Saint John and Mary Magdalene.
Reverse enamel with orange and purplish flux.
Old collector's label on the back.
Size: 12 x 8 cm.
Natural fading of the red-brown enamel, wears with gold highlights.
Expert: Laurence Fligny
Mary leans over Christ lying on her knees; John holds his head while Mary Magdalene grabs one of his hands and carries the ointment vase.
The scene is set under a tri-lobed arcature with perspective background; tufts of plants adorn the foreground.
We know of several curved plaques with an identical composition: the Hermitage Museum has two of them (inv. -1418 and -273, og. a and b); another is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. M.7-1938, og. c).
J.J. Marquet de Vasselot, in his work on the first Limousin enamels, relates this Pitié to the one appearing on the right-hand side of a triptych from the former Basilewski collection, kept in the Hermitage Museum (inv. -275). This work is part of a corpus that the art historian attributes to an anonymous master to whom he has given the name of another triptych belonging to the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans (inv. A 6947). He
essentially characterizes the manner of this master by the expressive gestures of the characters and their features far removed from an ideal of beauty.
This Lamentation plaque is probably to be placed at the beginning of the series of Kisses of Peace illustrating this theme. It is close in size and three-lobed arcature to that of the Fitzwilliam. Its singularity in relation to all the other plaques lies in the absence of the turban topping Mary Magdalene, here characterised by her long hair falling down her back. It is therefore a rare testimony of the first painted enamels from Limousin, still marked by a certain archaism and not influenced by the Italian Renaissance, but rather, here, Flemish and Germanic.
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Limoges, attributed to the workshop of the Master of the Triptych of Orleans, circa 1500.
Curved plate "Kiss of Peace" painted in polychrome enamel with gold highlights of a Lamentation: the Piece with Saint John and Mary Magdalene.
Reverse enamel with orange and purplish flux.
Old collector's label on the back.
Size: 12 x 8 cm.
Natural fading of the red-brown enamel, wears with gold highlights.
Expert: Laurence Fligny
Mary leans over Christ lying on her knees; John holds his head while Mary Magdalene grabs one of his hands and carries the ointment vase.
The scene is set under a tri-lobed arcature with perspective background; tufts of plants adorn the foreground.
We know of several curved plaques with an identical composition: the Hermitage Museum has two of them (inv. -1418 and -273, og. a and b); another is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. M.7-1938, og. c).
J.J. Marquet de Vasselot, in his work on the first Limousin enamels, relates this Pitié to the one appearing on the right-hand side of a triptych from the former Basilewski collection, kept in the Hermitage Museum (inv. -275). This work is part of a corpus that the art historian attributes to an anonymous master to whom he has given the name of another triptych belonging to the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans (inv. A 6947). He
essentially characterizes the manner of this master by the expressive gestures of the characters and their features far removed from an ideal of beauty.
This Lamentation plaque is probably to be placed at the beginning of the series of Kisses of Peace illustrating this theme. It is close in size and three-lobed arcature to that of the Fitzwilliam. Its singularity in relation to all the other plaques lies in the absence of the turban topping Mary Magdalene, here characterised by her long hair falling down her back. It is therefore a rare testimony of the first painted enamels from Limousin, still marked by a certain archaism and not influenced by the Italian Renaissance, but rather, here, Flemish and Germanic.
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