PAUL GRANDHOMME (1851-1944)
11.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1514341
Los 74 | PAUL GRANDHOMME (1851-1944)
Schätzwert
5000EUR € 5 000 – 8 000
Paire de miroirs à suspendre figurant 'La Vérité'
plaques circulaires en émail peint polychrome et rehauts d'or, signées 'Grandhomme', dans des cadres en bronze doré ornés de feuillages et pendeloques en cristal facetté, avec une inscription circulaire sur émail d'après Montaigne : 'Immortalia mortali sermone notantes' ; un miroir manquant
D. 7,8 cm. (3 1/8 in.), à vue ; L. 13,5 cm. (5 ¼ in.)(2)
Literature
Bibliographie comparative :
P. Massé, « Gustave Moreau, Botticelli et la peinture des maitres dans les arts du feu sur métal à la fin du XIXe siècle », in Sèvres, revue de la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique, n° 10, 2001, pp. 61-73.
A. Duncan, The Paris salons, 1895-1914. Volume V, Objets d’art et metalware, Londres, 2012, pp. 291-295.
C. Cardinal, « Paul Victor Grandhomme (1851-1944), peintre-émailleur » in. Décors de peintres. Invention et savoir-faire, XVIe-XXIe siècles, Clermont-Ferrand, 2013, pp. 115-137.
M. Kornmann, Paul Victor Grandhomme, à paraître juillet 2026. [Consulté en juillet 2025].
M. Kornmann, Catalogue des œuvres de P.V. Grandhomme, à paraître juillet 2026. [Consulté en juillet 2025].
Exhibited
Peut-être Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts de 1908, Paris, n°2453, 'Trois miroirs (la Vérité), pour la Société des Amis du Bibelot. Emaux divers.'
Further details
A PAIR OF BRONZE, CRYSTAL AND ENAMELLED MIRRORS DEPICTING 'THE TRUTH', PAUL GRANDHOMME (1851-1944)
The career of Paul Victor Grandhomme (1851–1944) illustrates how the 19th century rediscovery of painted enamel inspired new artistic vocations. Trained as a jeweller, he encountered Claudius Popelin’s L’Émail des peintres in Épernay during the Commune. Fascinated by its combination of technical rigor and poetic expression, he trained with Eugène Gaigneré, installed a kiln in his Paris apartment, and by 1874 exhibited an enameled portrait of Vittoria Colonna at the Salon des artistes français.
He soon became a preferred supplier to major Parisian jewellers - Boucheron, Fouquet, Vever, Fontenay, and Falize - for whom he produced fine Neo-Renaissance plaques in the spirit of Limoges enamels. Awarded by the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs in 1880, he gained increasing recognition.
In 1888, a commission from architect Édouard Corroyer marked a turning point: together with Alfred Garnier (1848–1908), a former École des Beaux-Arts student he had met in 1877, he created the large enamelled plaque, La Musique. Their eight-year collaboration was based on technical innovation. By working copper as if it were paillon, covered with a flux preserving its brilliance, they modelled figures on translucent grounds of unprecedented richness.
Grandhomme and Garnier explored enamel’s expressive potential, adapting their palette to a variety of sources, including Bastien-Lepage, Puvis de Chavannes, Moreau, as well as Ingres and Titian. Their production followed a new trend: enamel plaques reproducing modern or contemporary paintings, highly prized for the permanence and chromatic subtlety that enamel conferred to the painted models. After their separation in 1896, Grandhomme continued independently, moving toward Art Nouveau while remaining a central figure in Parisian painted enamel.
Around 1908, the Société des Amis du Bibelot commissioned several mirrors featuring enamelled allegories of Truth. Comparable examples have appeared on the art market: an identical mirror, with a variant pose of the Truth, sold at De Baecque, 13 October 2021 (lot 445), a hand mirror also depicting Truth, with a slight variation, sold at Thierry de Maigret, 7 December 2012 (lot 203); and another mirror sold 11 June 2021 (lot 3).
Please note that this lot will be included in the artist’s catalogue raisonné, which is currently in preparation.
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