St. Stephen and the master Etienne Chevalier in front of the Queen of Angels

"In the summer of 1936, almost fifteen years after Charles Deering leave, an enlargement of the Cau Ferrat museum was opened that transformed Maricel Earth or Maricel Palace into a section museum of the Cau Ferrat.
Among other collections the “Junta de Museus” (Museum Assembly) placed there an important part of the funds of the Old Artistic Reproduction Museum. This diptych belongs to the enamelwork that comes from that museum.
From the end of Gothic it was usual among the enamellers to do reproductions or reinterpretations of works of well-known painters form prints or miniatures. For this enamelwork the author was inspired by two miniatures of a Book of Hours commissioned before 1445 to Jean Fouquet (Tours, c. 1415 – 1480) by Étienne Chevalier, treasurer of the French king, Charles VII and Louis XI, kept in the Condé of Chantilly museum (France).
Although on the other side has the inscription “SAINCT PIERRE/ E / MAISTRE ESTIENNE CHEVALLIER / 1504” and the monogram “PL II”, the saint represented is not Peter but Steve, patron saint of Étienne Chevalier.
The chronology of the piece does not conform the inscription’s date due to the type of the work.
On the other side the monogram neither coincides with none of the well-known workshops of the XVI century.
All together it confirms that it is an imitation piece done at the end of the XIX century or at the beginning of the XX century, within the context of the reprint of old times works of art."