Alfred MEYER (Paris, 1832 - 1904)
"You will show my head to the people, it is well worth it", Danton decapitated
Enamel plate painted on copper
Signed lower left: "Alf. Meyer / 1892".
Titled top center: "You will show my head to the people, it is well worth it".
Size : 13.5 x 11 cm (at sight), in a blackened wooden frame : 28 x 24 cm
Provenance:
Acquired by the Tiffany house in 1893 at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-arts.
Exhibitions :
- Paris, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, 1893, no. 349 ("Danton; 5 April 1794").
- Tiffany House, New York, 1893-1897.
Bibliography:
R. Froissart, Du romantisme à l'Art Déco, lectures croisées : mélanges offerts à Jean-Paul Bouillon, 2011, p. 159.
A student of the neo-classical painter François-Édouard Picot (1786-1868), like a number of future enamel painters, Alfred Meyer worked from 1858 to 1871 at the Manufacture de Sèvres, where he helped rediscover the processes of the Limousin enamellers of the Renaissance. He also trained Claudius Popelin, the most famous enameller of the last third of the 19th century. Alfred Meyer also made a career as an independent artist and exhibited at the Salon from 1864 as well as at Nadar's with the Impressionists in 1874. In 1895, the painter published a book called L'Art de l'émail de Limoges.
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