Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edouard Liévre, Les Collections célebres

d'oeuvres d'art (Paris, 1866), pi. 49; Donald Ε

Rowe, "The Art of Jewellery, 1540-1650,"

Connoisseur 188 (April 1975), p. 293, pi. 4;

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewellery

(London, 1979), pp. 90-92, pi. 8, fig. 236;

Art at Auction: the Year at Sotheby's 1983-1984

(London, 1984), p. 202; "Acquisitions/1985,"

GettyMusJ 14 (1986), no. 217, p. 253, illus.

196. Twelve Plaques with Scenes from the
     Passion of Christ
     Limoges, 1530s
     By Jean II Pénicaud
     Polychrome enamel on copper with gold
     highlights
     Each stamped on back under clear counter-
     enamel with a Ρ surmounted by a crown
     (Pénicaud workshop stamp). Also inscribed
     SANCT. PETR. on Saint Peters robe in The
     Entry into Jerusalem plaque and IOSEP.
     DABAR on robe of Joseph in The Entomb­
     ment plaque.
     Height (each plaque): approx. 3%) in.
     (9.4 cm); Width: approx. 2% in. (7.3 cm)
     Accession number 88 .SE.4.1-.12
     PROVENANCE
     Alessandro Castellani, Rome (sold, Hotel
     Drouot, Paris, May 12-16," 1884, lot 472);
     Mante collection, Paris, 1884; by descent to
     Robert Mante, Paris, until 1986; [Same Art,
     Ltd., Zurich].

EXHIBITIONS

Lille, Exposition retrospective de l'art frangais

au Trocadéro, 1889, no. 1037.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes

d'art faites en France et ä Vétranger... (Paris,

1901-1912; rpr. Hildesheim, 1971), p. 522;

"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJYj (1989),

no. 89, pp. 148-150, illus.; Peggy Fogelman,

196

"The Passion of Christ: Twelve Enamel

Plaques in the J. Paul Getty Museum,"

GettyMusJ 18 (1990), pp. 127-140.

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