Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: Property from the Library of T. Kimball Brooker
The Master of the Aeneid
Plaque with the Descent of Aeneas to the Underworld and the Tribunal of Minos
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Bibliotheca Brookeriana: Property from the Library of T. Kimball Brooker
The Master of the Aeneid
French, Limoges, circa 1525-1530
Plaque with the Descent of Aeneas to the Underworld and the Tribunal of Minos
inscribed: ENEAS, SYBILLA, MINOS, INNOCENTES DANATI, INFANTES, SENEVS, LAODOMIA, EVADNE, LVGENTES CAMPI, PHEDRA, ERIPHYE, DIDO, PROCRIS, NITRIDATES, CATO, CONCIENTES SIBIMORTE, and SOCRATES
partially gilt painted enamel on copper, in a gilt copper frame and velvet covered mount
plaque: 22.5 by 20cm., 8 7/8 by 7 7/8 in.
overall: 29.5 by 26.5cm., 11 5/8 by 10½in.
Anatole Demidoff, 1st Prince of San Donato (1813-1870);
His sale, Paris, 30 March 1870, lot 465;
Count Chabrières-Arlès, Paris, circa 1912;
Alfred Rütschi (1868-1929), Zurich;
His posthumous sale, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 16-27 November 1954, lot 392;
Sale of the Estates of Count H. v. Reding and M. Alfred Gonet, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 19-25 May 1960, lot 125;
With Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris
J. J. Marquet de Vasselot, 'Une suite d'émaux à sujets tirés de l'Éneide', in Bulletin de la Société de l'Art français, 1912, pp. 6-51, p. 44, no. 41;
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. 145, no. 57
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