The Master of the Aeneid, French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530 | Plaque with Cassandra being put to Death

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December 5, 03:34 PM GMT

Estimate

240,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

The Master of the Aeneid

French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530

Plaque with Cassandra being put to Death

partially gilt painted enamel on copper, with a copper gilt mount and within a later wood frame

enamel: 22.5 by 20cm., 8 7/8 by 7 7/8 in.

Hollingworth Magniac (Colworth collection), Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 2-15 July 1892, lot 528, repr. p. 142;

J & S Goldschmidt, Frankfurt;

Jules Porgès collection, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit Paris, 17-18 June 1924;

with Alain Moatti, Paris;

Important Private Collection

J-J. Marquet de Vasselot,'Une suite d’émaux limousins à sujets tirés de l’Eneide' in Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire d’art français, 1912, pp. 29-30, no. 8;
P. Verdier, The Walters Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, Baltimore, 1967, p. 76;
S. Baratte, 'La série de plaques du Maître de L’Énéide' in A. Erlande-Brandenburg, J-M. Leniaud and X. Dectot (eds.), Études d'histoire de l'art offertes à Jacques Thirion. Des premiers temps chrétiens au XXe siècle, Paris, 2001, p. 138, no. 16