After Léonard Limosin (1505-1577), Limoges, 19th century Portrait of Constable Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567) Polychrome painted enamel with gold highlights in a gilded wooden frame with clasps, foliage, leather, foliage and two grotesque profiles. Ornamented with eight grisaille painted enamel plaques, four senestrochères bearing swords surrounded by a phylactery with the connétable's motto, two polychrome painted enamel masks and an atlantean and caryatid. Monogrammed LL and the date 1556 in the cartouche of the upper right spandrel. Height 80 cm - Width: 59 cm (missing) Léonard Limosin is certainly one of the greatest representatives of the Fontainebleau school in the field of enamel painting. Appointed enamel painter and valet to the King by Henry II in 1548, he went on to serve Francis II and Charles IX. The portraits of Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France, and Catherine de Médicis, wife of Henri II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX, represent two of the greatest patrons of enamel painting. Limosin's famous portrait of Anne de Montmorency, painted in 1556, is in the Louvre (N°1254). Catherine de Médicis, meanwhile, was portrayed no fewer than fourteen times. In all, eighteen of Limosin's portraits, including that of Anne de Montmorency, and four of Catherine de Médicis were mounted, as here, in elaborate frames incorporating additional enamel plates. A pair of portraits of Anne de Montmorency and Catherine de Médicis, in frames identical to the present portrait, from the von Oppenheim Trust, was sold at Christie's New York, 24 April 2001, lot 223. A portrait of Anne de Montmorency from the Al Thani collection at the Hôtel Lambert was sold at Sotheby's Paris on 12 October 2022, lot 101.