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A last donation from Marcel Puech

Mr Marcel PUECH acquired three oil paintings at an international auction at Sotheby’s of London, in order to offer them to the Calvet Foundation. He generously completed this donation with seven works of art, among which is a magnificent mirror bearing the coat of arms of the Royal Family.
 

Canvas oil paintings

Pietro NEGRI (1635-1679) Nero in front of the corpse of Agrippine

 

Pietro Della VECCHIA (1603-1678) Christ and his adulterous wife

 

Ercole II GRAZIANI (1688-1765) Saint Peter set free by the Angel

 

Damiano MAZZA (16th century) – based on. the kidnapping of Ganymede

 

Etienne PARROCEL (1696-1775) – attributed to. Noli me tangere

 

Etienne PARROCEL (1696-1775) – attributed to. Vision of a Saint

 

Claude ARNULPHY (1697-1786) - attributed to. Portrait of a gentleman

 

Antiveduto GRAMMATICA (1571-1626) - attributed to. The guardian angel

 

Sculpture

Virigin of mercy, h. 90 cm. Wood, traces of polychromy and gilding

 

Art object

Mirror bearing the coat of arms of the French Royal Family, 65 x 49 cm. The foliated pattern which surrounds the mirror is cleverly filled with animals and masks, two women in nonchalant poses, holding shields and fantastical beings, fauns and child musicians, playing, in particular, the horn and nakers. Goldsmiths, notably from Paris, liked to treat the decoration of the foliated pattern with the complicated technique of pierced metal. Because of its density, the frame of this mirror, with openwork on a red velvet background, is an astounding piece of work. It is delicately highlighted by a twisted surrounding mould. In the centre of the arched and recessed pediment, in the same way as in the lower part, it is still possible to see the French coat of arms, which an iconoclast, no doubt a revolutionary, has attempted to scrape off.
 

Published on : 09/05/2001