By Paul Victor Grandhomme
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A hanging mirror and very fine painted enamel symbolist plaque by Paul Victor Grandhomme, (1851-1944)
It depicts a naked young woman in a landscape holding a mirror, probably an allegory of sacred love and profane love, all in a chiseled bronze border on which stands out a formula taken from the Montaigne Essays: Immortalia Mortali Sermone Notantes.
On the reverse side a beveled mirror hanged by alternated enameled ormolu and faceted crystal grapples chains.
Signed Grandhomme lower right
Plaque: Diameter 11 cm
Museum level item,
Similar piece sold for 13000 € in Paris Drouot, 19th of April 2002, Gros-Delettrez
Paul-Victor Grandhomme was trained as an apprentice jeweler when the war with Prussia (1871) and consequent lack of work forced him to accept a position in a library.
He transposed some of Gustave Moreau’s works on enamel and collaborated with Alphonse Fouquet...
Category
1890s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Ormolu More Mirrors
MaterialsCrystal, Enamel, Ormolu