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Pierre Reymond, enameler

Virgin and Child with Clerics and Donors, ca.1513-after 1584

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Description

Maker

  • Pierre Reymond, ca. 1513-after 1584, French, enameler

Culture

French

Title

Virgin and Child with Clerics and Donors

Year

ca.1513-after 1584

Medium

Polychrome enamel and gold on copper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • enamel,
  • copper

Dimensions

12.9 x 10.7 cm (5 1/8 x 4 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

POSITO DA MIVM A BON D AN SO

Place

Limoges; French

Type

  • Enamels

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

34.024

About

A band of text at the top of this plaque proclaims the Virgin and Child as intercessors for the clerics and donors who kneel at their feet. As with the stained glass roundel nearby, the central image would have been adapted from a print source such as an engraving, but the composition is personalized by the representation of the religious community associated with the commission. Enameled plaques were luxury goods whose production in France was restricted to guild masters appointed by royal edict. In Limoges these guilds had perfected a technique of enamel painting in which colors were applied and fired without being separated by wires. The process entails the fusing of colors made of silica and metallic carbonate or oxide to a metal support such as copper, resulting in a hard, brilliant, fade-resistant surface.

POSITO DA MIVM A BON D AN SO

Limoges; French
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Galleries

Objects made for private devotion often depicted Mary as an intercessor for the faithful. In this French enamel plaque, Mary holds the infant Jesus as clerics and donors kneel at their feet. The plaque’s brilliant, painterly surface was created by fusing silica and metallic carbonate or oxide to copper. This new method allowed artists to apply and fire enamel pigments without using wire separations.

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