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Guy Chabot, Baron de Jarnac

 (French, ca. 1505–ca. 1575)
Date1540–45
MediumEnamel on copper
Dimensions9 3/8 × 7 1/16 in. (23.8 × 17.9 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1916.4.20
Commentary

A prolific enamel portraitist, Limousin was famous for small plaques but also worked in larger formats, such as this. Even at this scale, his exacting manner of stippling can be seen along the nose and right side of the face, as well as in the careful lines of white, brown, and black for the beard. The embroidered black jacket and matching cap with gold tassels and hat badge would date the portrait to the 1540s, the decade when Chabot (d. 1584) married Louise de Pisseleu and was named seneschal of Périgord.

Source: Wardropper, Ian and Julia Day. Limoges Enamels at The Frick Collection. New York: The Frick Collection/D Giles Limited, 2015.

Collection History

Roullet family, Château de Jarnac, Angoumois. Charles Stein, Paris. His sale, June 8–10, 1899, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Lots 18, 19. J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York. Duveen. Frick 1916.

Source: Enamels, Rugs and Silver in The Frick Collection. Volume VIII. New York: The Frick Collection, 1977.

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Front view of enamel and gilt metal portrait of Louise de Pisseleu, Madame de Jarnac
Follower of Léonard Limosin (or Limousin)
late 16th century or later
Front view of polychrome enamel portrait of Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Chatillon (1515–1571) …
Léonard Limosin (or Limousin)
ca. 1555
Front image of polychrome enamel plaque depicting the Portrait of a Man, potentially Antoine de…
Léonard Limosin (or Limousin)
ca. 1560
Front image of enamel polychrome plaque depicting a man in Renaissance style dress
Léonard Limosin (or Limousin)
1542
Front view of enamel ploychrome plaque representing the Portrait of a Man, potentially Guillaum…
Léonard Limosin (or Limousin)
1546
Front view of polychrome enamel plaque representing The Triumph of the Eucharist and the Cathol…
Léonard Limosin (or Limousin)
1561−62
Oval enamel plaque depicting Ninus, King of Nineveh
Attributed to Jean II Limousin
early 17th century or later
Side view of polychrome enameled saltcellar depicting Olympian Deities
Jean II Limousin
early 17th century
Front view of a Double-Tiered enameled polychrome Triptych depicting Scenes from the Passion of…
Workshop of Nardon Pénicaud
mid-16th century
Front view of gilt bronze and enamel Casket with Heads of the Caesars within Wreaths
Attributed to Colin Nouailher
ca. 1545
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