The Master of the Aeneid, French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530 | Plaque with Subjects engraved by Vulcan on the shield given by Venus to Aeneas

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December 5, 03:42 PM GMT

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240,000 - 350,000 GBP

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Property from an Important Private Collection

The Master of the Aeneid

French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530

Plaque with Subjects engraved by Vulcan on the shield given by Venus to Aeneas

partially gilt painted enamel on copper, within a later wood frame

enamel: 22.5 by 20cm., 8 7/8 by 7 7/8 in.

Laura-Thérèse de Rothschild (1847-1931), who after her marriage to Baron Nathan James Edouard de Rothschild (1844-1881) on 11 October 1871 was styled Baronne James de Rothschild, Paris, France 1912;

Georges Héreil (1909-1980), Geneva, Switzerland;

Kravis collection, New York;

with Alain Moatti, Paris, France, 2001;

Important Private Collection

A. E. Jones, A catalogue of the objects in gold & silver and the Limoges enamels in the collection of the Baroness James de Rothschild, London, 1912, p. 188, pl. XCVII;
J-J. Marquet de Vasselot,'Une suite d’émaux limousins à sujets tirés de l’Eneide' in Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire d’art français, 1912, p. 48, no. 51;
S. Baratte, 'La série de plaques du Maître de L’Énéide' in A. Erlande-Brandenburg, J-M. Leniaud and X. Dectot (eds.), Études d'histoire de l'art offertes à Jacques Thirion. Des premiers temps chrétiens au XXe siècle, Paris, 2001, p. 147, no. 76;
P. J. Usher, 'The Aeneid in the 1530’s: Reading with the Limoges enamels', P. J. Usher and I. Fernbach (eds.), Virgilian identities in the French Renaissance, Martlesham, 2012, pp. 161-188