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Stonecutter workshop Gobelins, Paris

Produced from 1660

Six Commesso mosaics with depictions of animals - designed to decorate a cabinet. 1660–80

Breccia paonazzo (elephant hide), Carrara marble (tusks), Diaspro rosso di Sicilia (animal tongues), Diaspro verde di Corsica (foliage), Diaspro verde di Sicilia (?) (deer antlers), lapis-lazuli (dog's collar), Marmo bianco e nero (doves), Pavonazetto (?) (bloodhound), Tigrato d’Arno (fur of the leopard being attacked), Alabastro fiorito (deer's fur), Alabastro a pecorella (fur of the individual bears), Alabastro di Volterra (fur of the goat and of the fighting bears), Alberese (platform), ruins-marble (tree trunk), as well as Belgian touchstone, so-called Paragone (background). Backing plate: slate. 25,5 × 17,6 cm / 11,4 × 15,6 cm (10 × 6 ⅞ in. / 4 ½ × 6 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Stonecutter workshop Gobelins, Paris. Six Commesso mosaics with depictions of animals - designed to decorate a cabinet. 1660–80.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 6,400

 

- 8,540

Sold for:

18,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

Information

Breccia paonazzo (elephant hide), Carrara marble (tusks), Diaspro rosso di Sicilia (animal tongues), Diaspro verde di Corsica (foliage), Diaspro verde di Sicilia (?) (deer antlers), lapis-lazuli (dog's collar), Marmo bianco e nero (doves), Pavonazetto (?) (bloodhound), Tigrato d’Arno (fur of the leopard being attacked), Alabastro fiorito (deer's fur), Alabastro a pecorella (fur of the individual bears), Alabastro di Volterra (fur of the goat and of the fighting bears), Alberese (platform), ruins-marble (tree trunk), as well as Belgian touchstone, so-called Paragone (background). Backing plate: slate. 25,5 × 17,6 cm / 11,4 × 15,6 cm (10 × 6 ⅞ in. / 4 ½ × 6 ⅛ in.). Framed

Related literature: Daniel Meyer: Tableaux de Pierres Dures. Château de Versailles, 1992, p. 15 / Alvar González-Palacios: Il gusto dei Principi. Arte di Corte del XVII e del XVIII secolo. Milan, 1993, p. 32ff. / Claudia Przyborowski: Commesso-Tafeln im Florentiner Kabinett in Schloss Favorite bei Rastatt. Studien zu Arbeiten der Galleria dei Lavori in Florenz zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz, year XLII (1998), vol. 2/3, p. 383-457, p. 410ff. / Annamaria Giusti: Pietra Dura. Bilder aus Stein. Munich, 2005, p.168f.

Comparable objects with similar depictions of fighting animals: table top in Les Petits Appartements, Versailles, inv. no. V 1190 / writing cupboard, Schloss Callenberg, Stiftung der Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha’schen Familie, inv. no. CAP V, no. 45 Fr..

1960s art trade, Paris / private collection, Saarland