Pre-Raphaelite Decorative Art

Important painting representing praying woman and her Guardian Angel pointing to the sky with beautiful landscape in the background Louis A. F. (Jean-Louis) Janmot was born in Lyon, France, of Catholic parents who were deeply religious. He became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot. In 1831 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and a year later, he won the highest honor, the Golden Laurel. In 1833, he came to Paris to take painting lessons from Victor Orsel and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. With other Lyon painters, he entered the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. In 1835, he went to Rome with Claudius Lavergne, Jean-Baptiste Frenet and other students and met Hippolyte Flandrin. After his return to Lyon in 1836, Janmot would attract the attention of critics of the Salon de Paris in conducting large-scale paintings with religious inspiration such our item. After 1845, he attracted the interest of Charles Baudelaire with his painting Flower of the Fields that allowed him to access to the Salon of 1846. Theophile Gautier was impressed by his Portrait of Lacordaire (1846). In December of that year he married Leonie Saint-Paulet, from a noble family in Carpentras. In 1856, Janmot obtained a commission to paint a fresco (since destroyed) representing the Last Supper for the church of St. Polycarp. Other orders followed, including the decoration of the dome of the Church of St. Francis de Sales...

A fine antique painted porcelain plaque. Entitled 'Gedenke Mein', meaning "Forget-me-not" (the flower) in English. The hand painted scene depicts a young woman by the edge of a garden attended by a young man, separated from her by a stone wall, who holds her hand and gazes longingly at her. After C. Fröschl. Simply a great piece of hand-painted German porcelain...