Mars 197
- Allegory of Charles IX as Mars
Allegory of Catherine de' Medici as Juno
Limoges, 1573
Leonard Limosin
Polychrome enamel on copper and silver
with painted gold highlights; modern
frames
Signed LL on sword of Mars, dated 1573 in
center of cloud at left of Mars. Signed LL at
bottom of cloud in bottom center of Juno.
Inscribed on backs at a later date C DE
MEDICIS and CHARLES IX.
Height: 6Vs in. (17.5 cm); Width: 9 in.
(23 cm), each plaque, without frames
Accession numbers: 86 .SE.536.1 (Mars);
86.SE.536.2 (Juno)
Juno 197
PROVENANCE
Debruge-Dumenil, 1847; Albert Primrose,
6th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers,
Buckinghamshire (sold, Sotheby's, London,
May 20, 1977 [hors catalogue]); Lord Astor,
Hever Castle (sold, Sotheby's, London, May
6,1983, lot 296); [Cyril Humphris,
London].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Joseph Laborde, Description des objets d'art
qui composent la collection Debruge
Dumenil (Paris, 1847), nos. 704-705;
Joseph Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux,
et objets divers exposes dans les galeries du
Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1853), pp. 186-187;
Louis Dimier, Histoire de la peinture de
portrait en France au XVIe siecle, vol. 3
(Paris and Brussels, 1926), no. 33, p. 250;
Philippe Verdier, The Frick Collection, vol.
8 (New York, 1977), no. 13, pp. 124,126;
"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJis (1987),
no. 199, pp. 218-219, illus.
Ceramics
- Oval Basin
Saintes, circa 1550
Attributed to Bernard Palissy
Lead-glazed earthenware
Height: 2^5 /s in.(6.6 cm); Length: 1 ft. 7 in.
(48.2 cm); Width: ift. 2% in. (36.8 cm)
Accession number 88.DE. 63
PROVENANCE
Carl Becker, Cologne; private collection,
England; British art market.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Katalog der Kunst-Sammlung, Consul Carl
Becker, J. Μ. Heberle (Η. Lempertz Söhne),
Versteigerung zu Köln (Cologne, 1898),
no. 12, p. 2; Alan Gibbon, Céramiques de
Bernard Palissy (Paris, 1986), book jacket;
"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJvj (1989),
no. 84, p. 146, illus.
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