Lot 16
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A POLYCHROME ENAMEL PLAQUE OF THE LAMENTATION OVER THE DEAD CHRIST

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A POLYCHROME ENAMEL PLAQUE OF THE LAMENTATION OVER THE DEAD CHRIST
LIMOGES, SECOND QUARTER 16TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO A FOLLOWER OF NARDON PÉNICAUD

The Savior bleeding from His wounds, extended over His seated mother's lap with St. John to His left and to His right Nicodemus with St. Mary Magdalen holding a jar of ointment (damages and losses to enamel)-7in. x 5¼in. (17.8cm. x 13.2cm.)

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

P. Verdier, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1967, no. 30, pp. 55-56, no. 31, pp. 56-60

The painting is more generalized, the palette of colors is more muddy and there is less internal modelling of the drapery, than there is in a rendering of the subject by the Master of the Triptych of Louis XII in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (no. 31). The handling is related to a plaque of the crowning with thorns in the same collection (no. 30).