File:Master of the Orléans Triptych - Two Wings - Prophets - Walters 44645.jpg

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Two Wings: Prophets   (  )
Artist	Master of the Orléans Triptych (French, active late 15th-early 16th century)
Title	Two Wings: Prophets
Description	English: The two prophets, originally forming the wings belonging to a Nativity triptych, have the same garb and gesture as David and Isaias on the wings of the triptych Walters 44.316, and are set within similar niches. The model used there for David was employed here for Isaias, whose scroll is inscribed: PVER NATVS EST NOBIS YSAIE 9 (Isaias 9:6). The other prophet was patterned after the Isaias of Walters 44.316. His scroll is inscribed: PEPERIT FILIVM SVVM PRIMO GENITVM (Luke 2:7). The wings were formerly associated with the plaque of the Man of Sorrows, Walters 44.438. They are slightly higher than that plaque in its original state and are made of thicker copper. They come from a triptych of the Nativity. Three plaques of the Nativity by the Master of the Orléans Triptych are known: Marquet de Vasselot, "Emaux limousins," p. 254-255, nos. 69, 71, 72. The Walters plaques would fit perfectly the Nativity plaque in the British Museum, which is of the same height and has the same counter-enamel: Marquet de Vasselot, op. cit., no. 72; British Museum, "Guide to Mediaeval Antiquities," 1924, fig. 54. Related triptychs by Nardon Pénicaud prove that it was usual to bracket a Nativity scene or other representation presented in an open space between figures within niches. These plaques are certainly the work of an assistant and not a creation by the master himself, a fact which is clearly demonstrated by the inability of our enameller to measure up to the technically difficult handling of the flesh tones with which the head of the workshop experimented in his masterpieces. The design is also much less firmly established and the profiles of the heads are curiously flattened, as is that of John the Baptist on a wing likely by the same hand as these two prophets, formerly in the Edouard Aynard Collection (sale, Paris, December 1-4, 1913, lot 171).
Date	circa 1500 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (Renaissance era QS:P2348,Q4692 )
Medium	painted enamel on copper
Dimensions	Each height: 21.7 cm (8.5 in); width: 7.8 cm (3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,21.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,7.8U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	44.645
Place of creation	Limoges, France
Object history	Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase Frédéric Spitzer Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, lot 418 Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, by purchase Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase, 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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