Keywords: Jacques Laudin I - Portrait of a Benedictine Abbot - Walters 44165.jpg The rectangular plaque shows the bust-length portrait three-quarters face to the left of a tonsured monk with small moustache and full chin-beard He wears the black habit of the Benedictine order The background is bright blue with a white line border The enamel framework is of octagonal shape the upper part suggesting the mask of a dragon its wings entwined with drapery; on the lower edge between the mitre and crozier of an abbot a coat-of-arms argent a mount of ten peaks in chief three billets or one and two In the spandrels gilt foliage with flowers in blue purple and green over paillettes of foil middle Other date century 17 technique painted enamel copper cm 20 3 16 8 accession number 44 165 33540 Henry Walters city Baltimore in New York Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges enamel - 17th century Renaissance portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum Croziers in art Portrait miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Jacques Laudin I |