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Lot 635 Dα

Five roundels with enamelled depictions of rulers

Auction 1086 - overview Cologne
19.05.2017, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.464 € (incl. premium)
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Five roundels with enamelled depictions of rulers

Of gilt bronze/brass with enamel on copper and oils on canvas. Each roundel containing seven enamelled plaques with portraits of Spanish and French kings on a green painted ground in glazed Empire frames with large hanging loops. One glazed front lacking, chips to the other glasses. Diameter ca. 19 cm.
Presumably French, 19th C.

These 35 enamel medallions present an interesting overview of an apparently invented geneology, presumably based on pictorial programmes popular in Limoges in the mid-17th century. The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig houses 11 round medallions with portraits of rulers painted by Jacques I Laudin after engravings by Jacques II de Gheyn after Sueton. The present work is presumably a work from Limoges painted in the tradition of the late 18th or early 19th century, either slightly later or contemporaneously.

Literature

The early works of Jacques I Laudin in: Müsch, Maleremails des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts aus Limoges, Braunschweig 2002, no. 149 ff.