PERUZZI, BENEDETTO (Ital.). Gem-engraver of Florence (singolare intagliatore di pietre), best known for his counterfeit of the seal of Carlo di Durazzo, in 1379. This is all that is known of him. "II est le premier ", says Babelon, " de cette pléiade d'artistes, qui, en Italie, durant un si?cle et demi, vont mettre ? la mode les produits de la glyptique et s'efforceront dans leurs ?uvres d'atteindre la pureté de dessin et l'habileté technique si justement admirées dans les plus belles gemmes de l'antiquité ". Bibliography. — Cicognara, Storia della scultura, t. II, p. 391. — King, Antique Gems, 1872, p. 412. — Eug. Müntz, Histoire de l' Art pendant la Renaissance, I, 695. — Babelon, Pierres gravées, 1894. — Ibid., Histoire de la Gravure sur Gemmes en France, p. 126.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
PAPILLON
PAPILLON (French). Medallist of the first half of the seventeenth century. Mazerolle places the date of his activity between 1600 and 1632. Nothing is known about him. His signature : PAPILLON occurs on two Portrait-medals of Henry II. of Bourbon, prince of Condé, one of which is dated 1632 (illustrated). These medals are not of striking merit. To the same artist, Mazerolle suggests the attribution of Portrait-medals of Etienne Pasquier, 1605 ; R. hercvles gallicvs (49 and 50 mill.), and Gaston ...
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PAPILLON (French). Medallist of the first half of the seventeenth century. Mazerolle places the date of his activity between 1600 and 1632. Nothing is known about him. His signature : PAPILLON occurs on two Portrait-medals of Henry II. of Bourbon, prince of Condé, one of which is dated 1632 (illustrated). These medals are not of striking merit. To the same artist, Mazerolle suggests the attribution of Portrait-medals of Etienne Pasquier, 1605 ; R. hercvles gallicvs (49 and 50 mill.), and Gaston ...
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PAPILLON, DÉSIRÉ GUSTAVE
PAPILLON, DÉSIRÉ GUSTAVE (French). Gem-engraver of the third quarter of the nineteenth century, born at Versailles ; pupil of Langlois, Sézanne and Laloudre. The following works were exhibited by him between 1859 and 1872 at the annual Paris Salons : 1859. Head of Ceres; a study in oriental agate; — 1861. Arethusa, the companion of Diana; intaglio in oriental agate; — Portrait-cameos of Mme veuve R***, and M. G. P***; — 1863. Emmanuel, actor ; shell cameo; — 1864. Laferri?re, actor; shell cameo...
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PAPILLON, DÉSIRÉ GUSTAVE (French). Gem-engraver of the third quarter of the nineteenth century, born at Versailles ; pupil of Langlois, Sézanne and Laloudre. The following works were exhibited by him between 1859 and 1872 at the annual Paris Salons : 1859. Head of Ceres; a study in oriental agate; — 1861. Arethusa, the companion of Diana; intaglio in oriental agate; — Portrait-cameos of Mme veuve R***, and M. G. P***; — 1863. Emmanuel, actor ; shell cameo; — 1864. Laferri?re, actor; shell cameo...
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PAPILLON, JEAN
PAPILLON, JEAN (French). Goldsmith of Tours, whose name occurs also as CHAPILLON, or CHAPPILLON. He engraved in 1499 or 1500, after a model by Michel Colombe, the medal which was presented by the city of Tours to Louis XII. on his visit there, 24. November 1500. Papillon made sixty specimens in gold, one of which is still preserved in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris (Vide COLOMB, Vol. I). The work of this medal is very elegant, and belongs to the finest specimens of early French Renaissance med...
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PAPILLON, JEAN (French). Goldsmith of Tours, whose name occurs also as CHAPILLON, or CHAPPILLON. He engraved in 1499 or 1500, after a model by Michel Colombe, the medal which was presented by the city of Tours to Louis XII. on his visit there, 24. November 1500. Papillon made sixty specimens in gold, one of which is still preserved in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris (Vide COLOMB, Vol. I). The work of this medal is very elegant, and belongs to the finest specimens of early French Renaissance med...
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PAQUET, ANTHONY C.
PAQUET, ANTHONY C. (Amer.). Medallist, born at Hamburg in 1814 ; emigrated to the United States of America in 1848; served as Assistant Mint-engraver at Philadelphia, from 1857 to 1864, and died in 1882 at the age of sixty-eight. Amongst his medals are : George Washington (Washington Cabinet of Medals, inaugurated 22. February 1860) ; — James Ross Snowden, director of the U. S. A. mint, 1869 ; — Andrew Johnson, 1865 ; — General U. S. Grant; — James Buchanan; — Alexander Hill Everett; — Col. Fre...
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PAQUET, ANTHONY C. (Amer.). Medallist, born at Hamburg in 1814 ; emigrated to the United States of America in 1848; served as Assistant Mint-engraver at Philadelphia, from 1857 to 1864, and died in 1882 at the age of sixty-eight. Amongst his medals are : George Washington (Washington Cabinet of Medals, inaugurated 22. February 1860) ; — James Ross Snowden, director of the U. S. A. mint, 1869 ; — Andrew Johnson, 1865 ; — General U. S. Grant; — James Buchanan; — Alexander Hill Everett; — Col. Fre...
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