Round Dish with the Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche

c. 1562

Leonard Limousin

Artist, French, c. 1506 - 1575/1577

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G18

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    enamel painted in grisaille on copper

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 42.6 cm (16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.293

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Debruge Duménil collection, Paris, by 1847;[1] Prince Petr Soltykoff [c. 1801-1889], Paris; (his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, no. 472); Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris;[2] (his estate sale, at his residence by Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, no. 443); Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 18 November 1909 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] Labarte, Jules, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil, Paris, 1847: no. 699.
[2] La collection Spitzer: Antiquité, moyen-âge, renaissance, 6 vols., Paris, 1890-1892: 2(1891):28, no. 27, repro. émaux, pl. 6; text on painted enamels by Claudius Popelin.
[3] Widener Collection records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1847

  • Labarte, Jules. Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge-Duménil. Paris, 1847: no. 699.

1892

  • Molinier 1892, 2: (1891):28, no. 27, repro. Emmaux pl. 6.

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 38, as The Feast of the Gods by Jean Courteois.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 10, as Large plate with the Feast of the Gods by Jean Courteois.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 212, no. 24.

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: 92-94, color repro. 93.

Wikidata ID

Q62131017

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