Attributed to Bernard PERROT Altare, 1640 - Orléans,... Lot 9

Attributed to Bernard PERROT Altare, 1640 - Orléans, 1709 Portrait of a man in profile Green tinted glass cast, molded and etched, oval shape Gilded brass rim with green leather case Portrait of a man in profile, glass, attr. to B. Perrot 5,60 x 5 cm (2,20 x 1,97 in.) Provenance: Sylvie Lhermitte-King, A la façon de Venise, Paris, ca. 2005 Bibliography : Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, "Glass for the King of Siam: Bernard Perrot's portrait plaque of King Louis XIV and its trip to Asia", in 'Journal of Glass Studies' , 2007, Vol. 49, 2007, p. 75-76, fig. 7 (as attributed to) Comment : Thanks to the presence in Orleans of Bernard Perrot, a glassmaker from Altare, a rival center of Murano, the city was to experience an unparalleled boom in the art of glassmaking. With his solid know-how and remarkable technical innovations, Perrot was one of the most important master glassmakers of the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous inventions was the technique of table-casting glass, from which he produced a series of portraits in the form of large medallions with a polished flat surface and hollowed-out figures on the reverse. The small medallions presented here illustrate the developments of this art. We thank Sylvie Lhermite-King for her help in writing this note.