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Candlestick (one of a pair)

Engraver After engravings by Heinrich Aldegrever German
ca. 1560–70
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 544
The processions of infants on the drip pans were taken from engravings by the anonymous Italian Master of the Die (active ca. 1532). The labors of Hercules depicted on the repoussé medallions around the base of one of the candlesticks are after engravings by
the German Heinrich Aldegrever (1502–after 1555); gods of classical antiquity fill the medallions on the other example.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Candlestick (one of a pair)
  • Artist: Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court) (working in the second half of the sixteenth century)
  • Engraver: After engravings by Heinrich Aldegrever (German, Paderborn ca. 1502–1555/1561 Soest)
  • Date: ca. 1560–70
  • Culture: French, Limoges
  • Medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt
  • Dimensions: Height: 6 in. (15.2 cm); Diameter: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
  • Classification: Enamels
  • Credit Line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1939
  • Object Number: 39.66.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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Candlestick (one of a pair), Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court), Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt, French, Limoges
Candlestick (one of a pair)
Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court)
Heinrich Aldegrever
ca. 1560–70
Henri d'Albret (1503–55), King of Navarre, Léonard Limosin French, Enamel, painted on copper and partly gilded, French, Limoges
Henri d'Albret (1503–55), King of Navarre
Léonard Limosin
1556
Pandarus and Bitias Fight the Rutuli Before the Trojan Camp (Aeneid, Book IX), Master of the Aeneid, Painted enamel on copper, partly gilded, French, Limoges
Pandarus and Bitias Fight the Rutuli Before the Trojan Camp (Aeneid, Book IX)
Master of the Aeneid
ca. 1530–35
Turnus, Overwhelmed by the Trojans, Crosses the River to Return to His Companions (Aeneid, Book IX), Master of the Aeneid, Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt, French, Limoges
Turnus, Overwhelmed by the Trojans, Crosses the River to Return to His Companions (Aeneid, Book IX)
Master of the Aeneid
ca. 1530–35
Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (Aeneid, Book V), Master of the Aeneid, Painted enamel on copper, partly gilded, French, Limoges
Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (Aeneid, Book V)
Master of the Aeneid
ca. 1530–35

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