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LIMOUSIN (or LIMOSIN), LEONARD (c. 1505-c. 1577)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 701 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LIMOUSIN (or LIMOSIN), LEONARD (c. 1505-c. 1577) , French painter, the most famous of a family of seven
Limoges
  enamel painters, was the son of a
Limoges
  innkeeper. He is supposed to have studied under Nardon Penicaud. He was certainly at the beginning of his career influenced by the German school, indeed, his earliest authenticated
work
 , signed L. L. and dated 1532, is a
series
  of eighteen' plaques of the " Passion of the Lord," after Albrecht Dtfrer, but this influence was counterbalanced by that of the Italian masters of the school of Fontainebleau, Primaticcio, Rosso, Giulio Romano and Solario, from whom he acquired his taste for
arabesque
  ornament and for mythological subjects. Nevertheless the French tradition was sufficiently ingrained in him to save him from becoming an imitator and from losing his personal style. In 1530 he entered the service of Francis I. as painter and varlet de cltambre, a position which he retained under
Henry
  II. For both these monarchs he executed many portraits in enamelamong them quite a number of plaques depicting Diane de Poitiers in various characters,plates, vases, ewers, and cups, besides decorative works for the royal palaces, for, though he is best known as an enameller distinguished for rich colour, and for graceful designs in grisaille on black or
bright
  blue backgrounds, he also enjoyed a
great
  reputation as an oil-painter. His last signed works
bear
  the date 1574, but the date of his death is uncertain, though it could not have been later than the beginning of 1577. It is on record that he executed close upon two thousand enamels. He is best represented at the Louvre, which owns his two famous votive tablets for the Sainte Chapelle, each consisting of twenty-three plaques, signed L. L. and dated 1553; " La Chasse," depicting
Henry
  II. on a white horse, Diane de Poitiers behind him on horseback; and many portraits, including the kings by whom he was employed, Marguerite de Valois, the due de Guise, and the cardinal de Lorraine. Other representative examples are
at the Cluny and Limoges museums. In England some magnificent examples of his
work
  are to be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, and the Wallace Collection. In the collection of Signor Rocchi, in Rome, is an exceptionally interesting plaque representing Frances I. consulting a fortune-teller.
See Leonard
Limousin
 : peintre de portraits (L'(Euvre des peintres emailleurs), by L. Boudery and E. Lachenaud (Paris, 1897)
a careful study, with an elaborate catalogue of the known existing examples of the artist's work. The book deals almost exclusively with the portraits illustrated. See also Alleaume and Duplessis, Les
Douze Apotresemaux de Leonard
Limousin
 , &c. (Paris, 1865); L. Boudery, Exposition retrospective de Limoges en 1886 (Limoges, 1886) ; L. Boudery, Leonard Limousin et son ceuvre (Limoges, 1895); Limoges et le Limousin (Limoges, 1865); A. Meyer, L'Art de l'email de Limoges, ancien et moderne (Paris, 1896) ; Emile Molinier, L'Emaillerie (Paris, 1891).


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