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ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN PÉNICAUD, MID-16TH CENTURY
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A LIMOGES ENAMEL PLAQUE DEPICTING THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ACCOMPANIED BY SAINTS
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN PÉNICAUD, MID-16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel inscribed ‘AVE.MARIA.GRATIA’, in a later ormulu and red frame with a label inscribed ‘IOHANNES.PENICAVDIVS’
6 ½ x 4 ¾ in. (16.5 x 12 cm.)
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN PÉNICAUD, MID-16TH CENTURY
parcel-gilt polychrome enamel inscribed ‘AVE.MARIA.GRATIA’, in a later ormulu and red frame with a label inscribed ‘IOHANNES.PENICAVDIVS’
6 ½ x 4 ¾ in. (16.5 x 12 cm.)
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la rue de Rivoli, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3818).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 273/5), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 347/5).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in the Fumoir sur la rue de Rivoli, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 3818).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 273/5), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 23 June 1945 (MCCP no. 347/5).
Returned to France on 25 June 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol, ‘Plaque - Vierge et Enfant Jésus - les Apôtres -3,000 francs’).
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Musée Rétrospectif, Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie, 10 August-10 October 1865, no. 2431.
Paris, Champs-de-Mars, Histoire du travail, Exposition Universelle de 1867, 1 April-31 October 1867, no. 2881.
Paris, Champs-de-Mars, Histoire du travail, Exposition Universelle de 1867, 1 April-31 October 1867, no. 2881.