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| Keywords: Léonard Limosin - Portrait of a Gentleman - Walters 44268.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Léonard Limosin en This unidentified gentleman is dressed in the sober style of the French court around 1550-70 The suggestion of soft velvet the definition of the hair the shadow that sets off the profile of the face from the background and the parapet with a swag pattern are features of the work of Léonard Limosin and his workshop during these years Limosin was one of the most successful artists working in painted enamel for the French court and the only one who made portraiture a specialty Painted enamel portraits were more durable than those in tempera or oil between 1550 1570 Baroque enamel copper cm 5 7 4 8 accession number 44 268 341 Sigismond Bardac Collection Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Van de Baron Bogaerde Chateau de Heeswijk Bois-le-Duc date and mode of acquisition unknown Arnold Seligmann Rey Co New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Exposition Universelle Paris 1900 Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore National Gallery of Art Washington 2000 place of origin Limoges Walters Art Museum license 3D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Léonard Limosin Three-quarter view portrait paintings of men facing left Objects displayed at the Exposition Universelle 1900 Paintings French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
