ID 1344938
Lot 120 | ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF LÉONARD LIMOSIN (1505-1577), LIMOGES, CIRCA 1550
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
The Goddess Venus
parcel-gilt grisaille enamel on copper, in a gilt-bronze frame, inscribed 'VENUS'
11 ¼in. (28.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With Galerie Kugel, Paris, 2013.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II: Kunstkammer; Sotheby's, Paris, 12 October 2022, lot 126.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Netzer, Maleremails aus Limoges. Der Bestand des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums, Berlin, 1999, pp. 74-75, cat. no. 5.
V. Notin, La Rencontre des Héros. Regards croisés sur les émaux peints de la Renaissance, Limoges, Musée municipal de l'Evêché, 2002, pp. 157-170.
S. Baratte, Les Emaux peints de Limoges, cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2000, pp. 95 and 32.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
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