Attributed to Pierre Reymond
Triptych with the Lamentation
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Pierre Reymond
Limoges 1503 - 1584
Triptych with the Lamentation
partially gilt painted enamel on copper, in gilt copper frames and a velvet lined wood mount
central plaque (including frame): 13.5 by 11cm., 5¼ by 4⅜in.
flanking plaques (including frames): 13.5 by 6.5cm., 5¼ by 2½in.
mount (closed): 18 by 19cm., 7⅛ by 7½in.
with four labels to the reverse of the central plaque inscribed respectively: IMPORTED FROM FRANCE, DOUANES FRANÇAISES PARIS-BATIGNOLLES / Admission temporaires / Lot 1289/ ART. 1, 1884, and: 6628
Alice von Rothschild (1847-1922);
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), USA;
With Gimbel Brothers, New York, under the direction of Hammer Galleries, New York, 1941 (lot 1289);
From whom acquired in March 1941 by Mrs Paul Bauder, Tucson, Arizona;
By whom gifted to the father of the present owner, Los Angeles.
These beautiful and well-preserved panels from a triptych relate closely to a triptych with the Lamentation by Pierre Reymond in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv. no. M.1-1926), which is similarly flanked by figures in architectural niches. While the central scene of the Fitzwilliam triptych is based on a print by Marcantonio Raimondi, the present Lamentation follows the Small Passion by Albrecht Dürer. Another convincing stylistic parallel to the present enamel is found in a plaque with the Lamentation in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. no. Gr 17), which is catalogued in Blanc, op. cit., as a work by Pierre Reymond from the 1530s, the period when the enameller and his workshop seem to have specialised in exquisitely painted, polychrome religious scenes.
RELATED LITERATURE
M. Blanc, Emaux peints de Limoges, XVe-XVIIIe siècles, La collection du Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2011, pp. 80-85, no. 13
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