Rectangular enamel plate in grisaille with gold highlights on black background, featuring Diana at the bath with her companions surprised by Actaeon. Salmon-colored counter-enamel. Monogrammed in gold: M D.
Attributed to Martial Ydeux,
Limoges, mid 16th century.
(Small accidents and old restorations).
In a blackened oak frame carved with a double coat of arms and a date 1559.
Height : 9 cm
Length : 17,5 cm
A plate with the same subject and the same technique but larger, by Martial Ydeux is kept in the Louvre museum (MR 2535; N 1380)
Martial Ydeux, known as the Pope, successor of the famous Léonard Limosin, owned a house on rue Manigne in the suburbs of Limoges before August 28, 1553.
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