Leonardo LIMOSIN and workshop (Circa 1505-1575) Two... Lot 47

Leonardo LIMOSIN and workshop (Circa 1505-1575) Two sibyls Polychrome enamel plates on copper, Limoges circa 1540. H. 13 cm - W. 12.5 cm Provenance : Collection of Monsieur and Madame A., in their Hôtel particulier near the Champs-Élysées ; By descent to the current owner. Two square plaques on diamond-shaped points, one showing a Persian sibyl holding a lantern, the other an Eritrean sibyl, named here "RICHEA", holding a rose. Both are depicted mid-body in a medallion encircled by foliage, the counter-glaze in light fondant for the Persian sibyl, in midnight blue for the Eritrean sibyl. Léonard Limosin and his workshop produced a number of representations of sibyls, often associated with Old Testament prophets and apostles; some, as here, in medallions in a square plate, sometimes oriented in a diamond shape. Most of them are now in public collections: Musée National de la Renaissance d'Ecouen, Vatican Museums, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, British Museum... (Cf. Philippe Verdier, Cat. Painted enamels of the renaissance, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore 1967; pp. 161-169).