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| Keywords: Léonard Limosin - Plaque with Christ Carrying the Cross - Walters 4459.jpg The episode of Christ carrying his cross to Calvary would be part of a Passion series making up an altarpiece for private devotion The setting is indebted to the corresponding scene in the German artist Albrecht Dürer's Small Woodcut Passion of 1509-11 The composition is less complicated however and the slashed sleeves of two soldiers provide a modern detail The use of color especially the translucent wine-red as well as the gilding in the star-strewn sky and Christ's robes and head produces a brilliant decorative effect On the basis of style this plaque appears to be an early work by Leonard Limosin one of the greatest masters of painted enamel possibly before his earliest dated plaques from 1534 ca 1530 Renaissance painted enamel and gilded copper cm 17 13 8 accession number 44 59 31139 in Venice in 1863 Baron de Theïs Collection Sale Paris May 6 1874 J Pierpont Morgan New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore ca 1919 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters ca 1919 Exposition Universelle Paris 1867 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Léonard Limosin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
