LOT DETAILS

Materials:

enamel on copper, painted in grisaille, highlighted with gilding

Measurements:

12.40 in. (31.50 cm.) (height)

Literature:

B. Descheemaeker,. Emaux de Limoges de la Renaissance provenant de la collection Hubert de Givenchy, Paris, 1994, p. 46-48, n° 8. S. Barratte,. Musée du Louvre. Les Emaux peints de Limoges , Paris, 2000, p. 196 and 200

Provenance:

Madame de Polès collection; her sale, Paris, Georges Petit Gallery, 22-24 June 1927, lot 152. Indiana Univiersity Art Museum, Bloomington. Hubert de Givenchy collection, Paris. With J. Kugel Gallery, Paris. Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé collection