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Portable diplomacy: Louis XIV’s ‘boîtes à portrait’
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1036–43
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Happé, Samantha (Happé, Samantha)
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1. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Pierre or Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy. 1681. Enamelled gold, silver and diamonds, height 9 cm. (Palazzo Pepoli, Museo della Storia di Bologna).
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10. Portrait, by Jean-Frédéric Bruckmann (enamel) and Pierre or Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy (setting). Before 1696. Enamel and diamonds, 3.5 by 3 cm. (shown actual size). (Private collection).
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11. Reverse of Fig.10.
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12. Louis XIV of France riding a horse, by Pierre Mignard I. 1674. Oil on canvas, 312 by 301 cm. (Château de Versailles).
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13. Allegory of Louis XIV, protector of the Arts and Sciences, by Jean Garnier and Claude Lefebvre. 1670–72. Oil on canvas, 174 by 223 cm. (Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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14. Detail of Fig.1, showing Louis XIV dressed as a Roman emperor.
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15. L’Escalette, by Sébastien Le Clerc. 1683–94. Engraving, 45.2 by 38.3 cm. (Library of Congress, Washington).
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2. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Jean Pitan le Jeune and Jean I Petitot. c.1674. Gold, enamel, silver and diamonds, 7.2 cm. by 4.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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3. Reverse of Fig.2.
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4. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Pierre or Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy. 1683. Enamelled gold, silver and diamonds, height 9.6 cm. (shown actual size). (Kunstmuseum, The Hague).
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5. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Jean Pitan le Jeune and Jean I Petitot. c.1674. Gold, enamel, silver and diamonds, 7.2 cm. by 4.6 cm. (shown actual size). (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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6. Reverse of Fig.5.
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7. Top: miniature case, 1660–80. Gold enamelled in blue, white, black and pink, 8.9 by 5.4 cm. (shown actual size). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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8. Bottom: reverse of Fig.7.
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9. Portrait of an unknown man, by Robert Vauquer. 1660s. Enamel, metal and diamonds, 2.5 by 2.2 cm. (shown actual size). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Article
Concealing portraits in Renaissance Venice: Jacometto’s painted box
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 126–1139
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Author:
Manges Nogueira, Alison (Manges Nogueira, Alison)
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1. and 2. A tethered roebuck (recto) and Alvise Contarini (verso), by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1485–95. Oil and gold on panel (recto), oil on panel (verso), 11.7 by 8.6 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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10. Portrait of a woman, possibly a Novice of San Secondo, by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1490. Oil on panel, 24 by 15.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
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11. Rendering of the figural outlines in the painting in Fig.3.
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12. Auditus, by Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris I. 1561. Engraving, 21.5 by 26.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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13. Detail of Orpheus (‘The Widener Orpheus’), showing the figure of Orpheus. Venice, c.1515. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 39.5 by 81 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bridgeman Images).
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14. Orpheus and Charon, by Nicola da Urbino. Urbino, c.1515. Maiolica, diameter 28.2 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
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15. The wedding of Orpheus and Eurydice, Eurydice bitten by a snake, and Orpheus and Charon, after Benedetto Bordon. 1497. Woodcut, 29.8 by 20.6 cm. (page). (From Ovidio Metamorphoseos vulgare, transl. Giovanni de’ Bonsignori, Venice 1497, fol.83v; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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16. Daniel in the cave of the lions, by Cima da Conegliano. c.1495. Tempera and gold on panel, 57.7 by 43.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
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17. Orpheus charming the animals, by the workshop of Cima da Conegliano. Early 16th century. Pen and wash on paper, 25 by 20 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence).
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18. Orpheus redeeming Eurydice, by Moderno. Late 15th or early 16th century. Bronze, diameter 10.6 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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19. Petrarch, Laura and Orpheus, attributed to the Petrarch Master. 1463–64. Coloured pigments, gold and ink on parchment, 23 by 14 cm. (From Sonnets and Triumphs by Petrarch, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, L.101-1947).
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20. Portrait medal of Cristoforo Civran. Venice, late 15th century. Bronze, diameter 4.9 cm. (Private collection).
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21. Stag at rest chained to a tree, by Giulio Campagnola. c.1510–15. Engraving with stipple, 18.2 by 11.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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22. Deer chained to a laurel tree. Venice, late 15th century. Tempera on vellum. (From Rime, by Niccolò Lelio Cosmico, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, MS Marciano It. IX 152 (=7057), fol. 2v.).
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23. Tiberius. Roman, 14–20, in a mount with a Medici emblem and inscription, Italian or French, 16th century. Sardonyx, gold, pearl and enamel, 8 by 4.8 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
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24. Staurotheke with a double-sided sliding lid. Constantinople (?), early 9th century. Gilded silver, gold, enamel worked in cloisonné and niello, 2.7 by 10.3 by 7.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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3. and 4. A scene here identified as Orpheus and Charon (verso) and Portrait of a woman here identified as Daria Querini (recto), by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1485–95. Oil and gold on panel (verso), oil on panel (recto), 10.2 by 7.3 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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5. Portrait effigy of Elisabeth Krauss, with a sliding cover. Nuremberg, c.1640. Coloured wax and wood, 13.5 by 12.2 cm. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg).
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6. Giovanna de’ Rossi, by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.6 cm. (Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon).
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7. Allegory of Chastity (cover for Giovanna de’ Rossi), by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.7 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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8. Philipp Melanchthon and cover with grotteschi and an inscription, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1535. Oil on panel, diameter 9 cm. (Landesgalerie, Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover).
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9. Portrait of a boy, by Giovanni Bellini. c.1474. Oil on panel, 38 by 23 cm. (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).