ATTRIBUTED TO THE MONVAERNI MASTER (ACTIVE LIMOGES, C. 1461-85) - photo 1
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE MONVAERNI MASTER (ACTIVE LIMOGES, C. 1461-85)

Lot 6
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Lot 6 | ATTRIBUTED TO THE MONVAERNI MASTER (ACTIVE LIMOGES, C. 1461-85)
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£ 200 000 – 300 000
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MONVAERNI MASTER (ACTIVE LIMOGES, C. 1461-85)
A triptych depicting the Betrayal of Christ
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel; the flanking wings each with a kneeling donor figure and attendant saint, possibly associated, inscribed 'O mater dei memento mei' beneath both donors, in a gilt-copper frame and cuir-ciselé backing inscribed to the reverse 'No 44 / D.P.' and with a paper label inscribed '90'
The central panel: 7 ½ x 8 ¼ in. (19 x 21 cm.)
The side panels: 7 ½ x 3 5/8 in. (19 x 9.2 cm.), each




Provenance

François-Didier Petit de Meurville dit Didier Petit (1793-1873), Lyon; his sale, Paris, 18 March 1843, lot 346.
Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911).
Robert de Rothschild (1880-1946).
Baron Élie Robert de Rothschild (1917-2007),
and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

Catalogue de la collection formée par M. Didier Petit, à Lyon, Paris, 1843, no. 44.
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris, Catalogue général, Histoire du travail et monuments historiques, Paris, 1867, p. 205, no. 2820.
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, II, 1878, p. 986.
L. Gonse, 'Exposition universelle de 1878, Les Beaux-Arts et les Arts décoratifs, II L'art Ancien', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1879, p. 298.
A. Demartial, 'L’école de Monvaerni', in Bulletin de la société archéologique et historique du Limousin, LIX, 1910, p. 411, no. 2.
J.-J. Marquet de Vasselot, Émaux limousins de la fin du XVe siècle et de la première partie du XVIe : étude sur Nardon Pénicaud et ses contemporains, 1921, pp. 23, 34-36, 213-214 and 238-239, nos. 6 and 46.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
S. Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993, pp. 58-66.
S. Baratte, Les Émaux Peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000, pp. 30-37.



Exhibited

Paris, Champs-de-Mars, Histoire du travail, Exposition Universelle de 1867, April-October 1867, no. 2820.
Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Exposition rétrospective (also named Exposition historique de l’art ancien during the Exposition universelle), May-October 1878.
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