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| Keywords: Master KIP - Plaque with Cavalry Battle between Greeks and Trojans - Walters 44132.jpg This plaque together with its counterpart 44 133 each painted in sfumato grisaille were surely from a series set into a casket One of the commanding figures is identified as Hector the most valiant of the Trojans in The Iliad the Homeric epic chronicling the Greek conquest of Troy; so the overall theme may have been the Trojan War The artist took motifs from an engraving after a composition by the Italian master Giulio Romano 1499-1546 that represented a military campaign of the Roman general Scipio Africanus The monogram KIP found here is thought to be that of Jean Poillevé ca 1550 Renaissance technique painted enamel copper cm 6 9 8 8 accession number 44 132 15850 Collection of Baron de Theïs Sale 1874 no 55 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Exposition Universelle Paris 1867 Exposition rétrospective de l'art français au Trocadéro Paris 1889 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license 2D Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Master KIP Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
