Pietá

This typical Limoges enamel work represents a “Pietá”. The scene is centered by the cross (incomplete), and dominated by the figure of Our Lady with red, white and blue clothes, holding Jesus, on the floor, by the arms as crucified. This composition is set as a triangle with Our Lady and the Son at the centre, with John the Beloved on the right and Mary Magdalene on the left with a white handkerchief. All the figures have golden halos. An excellent example of the Limoges style of work left by Piere Bonnaud, the great enameller of the 19th and early XXth century, a unmissable academic of the French painting of the period.