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From 1804 To 1818

  • Yoel Davis

Yoel Davis

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Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux / The Met

    Ignacio Garcini wears the uniform of the Corps of Engineers in this somewhat puffed up, self-satisfied image.
    The splayed collar and decorative button holes help to animate his formal attire, which was originally more severe:the embroidered red cross and the badge of the Order of Santiago are decorations he received in 1806 and must have been added later.
    After the French invasion of Spain in 1808, Garcini became a collaborator of the enemy, and in 1811 he wrote the book Chronicle of Spain Since the Reign of Charles IV:Account of the Persecution Suffered by Colonel D. Ignacio Garcini.

The Brandenburg Gate

German, 1791–after 1834 / The Met

    This beaker painted with a view of the Brandenburg Gate, which closes the famous Unter den Linden allée in Berlin, is an example of the new medium of translucent enamels developed by a porcelain painter, Samuel Daniel Mohn (1762 - 1815) about 1805.
    He worked in Dresden, with a workshop of painters he had trained in the technique.
    Among his followers, who carried the art to Berlin and Vienna, were Gottlob Samuel Mohn, his son; Carl von Scheidt, who signed and dated this beaker and Anton Kothgasser.

Lac de Lugano (from the Service des vues Suisses)

French, 1740–present / The Met

    All of the plates in this service were decorated with views of Switzerland.
    This example illustrates the lake of Lugano.
    The service is notable for the use of transfer printing to establish the outlines of the landscape scenes, which were then painted with polychrome enamels.

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