PÉNICAUD, Pierre
(b. ca. 1515, Limoges, d. ca. 1590, Limoges)

Round Medallion Featuring Combats

c. 1550
Painted enamel on copper, gold, diameter 40 cm, thickness 8 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This is an example of painted enamel grisaille in which the work on the white enamel before firing allows to render volumes. The counter-enamel is colourless glass called flux. It is probably a decorative item meant to be mounted in paneling. The enameller copied the print of the Cutlass Battle by Marco Dente, a pupil of Marcantonio Raimondi, after Giulio Romano.




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