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Leonard Limousin

Portrait of a Huguenot, 1540

Not on View

Medium

enamel painted on copper

Dimensions

overall: 11 x 9.5 cm (4 5/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.292

Artists / Makers

Leonard Limousin (artist) French, c. 1506 - 1575/1577

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Inscription

lower right: .LL. 1540.

Provenance

Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris;[1] (his estate sale, at his residence by Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, no. 485); Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 13 November 1909 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.

[1] La collection Spitzer: Antiquité, moyen-âge, renaissance, 6 vols., Paris, 1890-1892: 2(1891):40, no. 68; text on painted enamels by Claudius Popelin.

[2] Widener Collection records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kann, Maurice
Spitzer, Frédéric, Baron
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Exhibition History

1889: Exposition rétrospective de l'art français, Trocadéro, Paris, 1889, no. 1082.

Technical Summary

Above the sitter's proper right shoulder a vertical crack in the enamel has been filled and inpainted, as have several small losses along the upper edges.

Bibliography

1889: Exposition rétrospective de l'art français. Exh. cat. Trocadéro, Paris, 1889: no. 1082.

1892: Molinier 1892, 2: (1891):40, no. 68.

1893: L'Art Paris (1893): 176, repro.

1897: Bourdery, Louis and E. Lachenaud. Léonard Limosin peintre de portraits. Paris, 1897: 245-246, no. 97A.

1935: Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 37-38, as Portrait of a Reformer.

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 10, as Portrait of a Man.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 213-214, no. 2.

1993: Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 90-91, color repro. 91.

2014: Schwann, Birgit. “Enamel insert restorations on Limoges painted enamels: A study on a remarkable nineteenth-century restoration technique with particular attention to the original paillon designs.” Studies in Conservation 59:3 (2014): 161-179.