Lot n° 45
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Jean REYMOND - Lot 45
Jean REYMOND
(active in Limoges between 1571 and 1602)
Abraham and the King of Sodom
Oval dish in enamel painted on copper, polychrome enamels, paillons and gilding highlights, monogrammed IR and captioned GENESE XIIII; last quarter of the 16th century, some restorations, gilt bronze border.
Length 52.5 cm - Width 40 cm
Provenance :
Ader sale, November 26, 1956 (lot no. 84), an anonymized copy of the slip will be given to the purchaser;
By descent ;
Collection of Monsieur C., industrialist in Indochina By descent to the present owner.
Not from the collection of the mansion near the Champs-Élysées.
Obverse: Abraham, standing in the center, refuses the offer of Bera, king of Sodom, kneeling on his right, his helmet crowned at his feet, in front of a city gate. In the background, several groups of soldiers stand before a forest and ruined buildings. The wing is decorated with a frieze of grotesques featuring fruit baskets, winged tritons, sphinxes and putti heads.
On the reverse: Jupiter standing with an eagle at his feet, under a canopy decorated with grotesques, readers with donkey ears, squirrels, birds and a winged putto head. Motif taken from Étienne Delaune.
The scene of Abraham rejecting Bera's offer is here taken identically from a model by Pierre Reymond, which can be found in grisaille on two dishes, one in the Louvre Museum (OA973b) and the other in the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, the latter dated 1577 (W.R.Hearts collection 48.2.15).
Our dish can be more closely compared to a polychrome dish of the same dimensions given to Jean Reymond, preserved in the Frick Collection in New York (inv. 1916-4-31), depicting the Last Supper, monogrammed in the same way and featuring the same motifs on the wing and the base.
the same motifs on the wing and the same Jupiter on the reverse.
Jean Reymond's style is characterized by a palette dominated by blues and greens, with moderate use of enamels on metallic pebbles, limited to a few draperies and cabochons; faces with marked squinting eyes, and a profusion of leafy foliage in gilding highlights.
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