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Source Description
The rectangular plaque shows the bust-length portrait, three-quarters face to the left, of a tonsured monk with small moustache and full chin-beard. He wears the black habit of the Benedictine order. The background is bright blue with a white line border. The enamel framework is of octagonal shape, the upper part suggesting the mask of a dragon, its wings entwined with drapery; on the lower edge, between the mitre and crozier of an abbot, a coat of arms: argent, a mount of ten peaks, in chief three billets or, one and two. In the spandrels, gilt foliage with flowers in blue, purple and green, over paillettes of foil.
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Document identity
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33540
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Portrait of a Benedictine Abbot
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Source metadata
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33540
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title
Portrait of a Benedictine Abbot
description
The rectangular plaque shows the bust-length portrait, three-quarters face to the left, of a tonsured monk with small moustache and full chin-beard. He wears the black habit of the Benedictine order. The background is bright blue with a white line border. The enamel framework is of octagonal shape, the upper part suggesting the mask of a dragon, its wings entwined with drapery; on the lower edge, between the mitre and crozier of an abbot, a coat of arms: argent, a mount of ten peaks, in chief three billets or, one and two. In the spandrels, gilt foliage with flowers in blue, purple and green, over paillettes of foil.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase [in New York]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
c. 1650
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
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Enamels
plaques
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7
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7
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
20.3
height
16.8
dimensionsRaw
H: 8 x W: 6 5/8 in. (20.3 x 16.8 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Inscription] Lower center edge
near coat of arms on the front: ·I·L·; [Inscription] Faint letters on the back: [La]udin
emailleur / au faubour / de Magnine; [Translation] Laudin
enameler in the suburb of Magnine (in Limoges); [Inscription] in black letters on the back: Limoges
med
painted enamel on copper, spandrels over silver paillons
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3796
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3231
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