Pierre Signac
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Miniature, King Charles XI (1655-1697)
Signed S. Portrait medallion in grisaille painting on enamel with a frame of gilded silver. The back in turquoise-blue enamel. Height 3.3 cm (including the eyelet in the frame 3.9 cm), width 2.8 cm.
Saleroom notice
Frame and eyelet is 18K gold, it's not gilded.
Literature
Sixten Strömbom, "Index över svenska kungliga porträtt Gustav I - Karl XII", 1943, volume III , compare ill. no 292.
Axel Sjöblom (ed.), "Nationalmusei miniatyrsamling, den Wicanderska samlingen och museets övriga miniatyrer", 1929, compare catalogue no 1020.
Görel Cavalli-Björkman, "Pierre Signac, en studie i svenskt emalj- och miniatyrmåleri under 1600-talet", 1972, the motif described at p. 111 and p. 118. Compare catalogue no 53, ill. 143 and 144.
Görel Cavalli-Björkman, "Svenskt miniatyrmåleri", 1981, compare ill. no 42 and 43 at p. 59. The motif described at p. 62.
Martin Olin, "Det karolinska porträttet, ideologi, ikonografi, identitet", 2000, compare ill. at p. 44.
Merit Laine (ed.), 2015, "Hedvig Eleonora, den svenska barockens drottning", Compare catalogue no 145 (owned by The Royal Armoury, Stockholm, inv. no 1148), the motif described at p. 180 and ill. at p. 181.
More information
On verso text:
"Qui m'ayme me porte et qui me porte ayme La patrie"(= The one who loves me carry me and the one carrying me loves the fatherland).