A French painted enamel mirror back depicting the Death of Adonis, attributed to François I. Limosin (active before 1582-after 1615), circa 1600 and later

A comparable mirror back depicting The Prayer to Juno in the Musée du Louvre, Paris is signed FL (no. MR 2625, see Baratte 2000: p. 385). It is on the basis of comparison to that example that several similar unsigned mirror backs depicting mythological scenes are attributed to François I. Limosin.  Particularly close to the present lot are two in the Musée du Louvre: Orpheus before Pluto and Persephone (no. MR 2626, Baratte op. cit.) and Venus and Cupid (no. MR R 205, Baratte op. cit.).  Another depicting Diana and Callisto is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, (no. M.11-1938).

RELATED LITERATURE

Sophie Baratte, Les Émaux Peints de Limoges, Paris, 2000