Two Renaissance enamels acquired by Richmond

23/3/25 - Acquisition - Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - The Parisian gallery Duponchel announced very recently that two Renaissance painted enamels from its catalogue have been acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The first is a salt cellar decorated with a Triumph of Ceres attributed to Pierre Reymond and dated c. 1550 (ill. 1 and 2), the second a later decorative plaque representing Apollo (ill. 3) which could have been made by a student of one of the greatest enamellers of the 16th century, Jean II Pénicaud, several years after his death, at the beginning of the 17th century. As Sylvain Cordier, director of the Department of European Art at the Richmond Museum, explained to us [1] these purchases benefited from the generosity of a loyal couple of donors, Joe and…