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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
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heframe is set with four plaques, repeating a design of a siren, with grotesquescrolls in grisaille and gold on a blue ground. Diameter of central plaque, 9^ inches ; diameter over all, 18^ inches. 1061 — Screen or Retable for an Altar. Composed of twenty-one enamelled plaques, set in a beautifully wrought architecturalframe of brass, in the style of Francis I., and mounted on a brass base. The retable is in three stages, the two lower containing each nine plaques,the upper three. The stages are separated by richly chased friezes. Threevertical divisions are formed by pilasters with ornamental capitals, the lower onesdecorated with trophies and festoons of fruits in high relief. The two lowerdivisions have at top an ornamental cresting; the central one terminates ina classic pediment flanked by urns; on the tympanum, in a wreath of enamel,is inscribed the name of the artist, Leonard Limousin, and the date, 1543.Each panel (with one or two exceptions) is signed L. L.; those with male
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figures, prophets, and Apostles, in gold, on the background; those with femalefigures, the sibyls, in black, on small white scrolls. The figures, one on each plaque, are denoted by attributes, and also bytheir names inscribed on long white banderoles which contribute a very strikingpart of the general effect. The Sybilla Delphica, twice repeated, bears in oneinstance the crown of thorns; in the other a rose. The coloring is very rich;a translucent red, turquoise, and lapis-lazuli blue, violet, gold, and white pre-dominating. The backgrounds are black. Two panels, the Sancte Paule and the Prophete Moyses, appear to be by another hand, probably that of afavorite pupil, but finished by the master. Height of the retable, 42^ inches ; width of the retable, 52 inches.Height of each plaque, 9 inches; width of each plaque, 4^ inches. This retable is figured in Harvards great Dictionnaire de lAmeublement etde la Decoration, vol. ii., Art. Email. It was exhibited in the historicalsection at the
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