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 Charles Laurent Marchand 

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Charles Laurent Marchand

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2017 Insta-Stud Showdown - Semifinal #1 (Jan-Jun 2017)

2017 Insta-Stud Showdown – Semifinal #1 (Jan-Jun 2017)

With the preliminary rounds all completed, we now head into the semifinals. The first round features the top 3 winners from each month during January to June 2017.

Vote for up to five guys. The top 5 vote-getters will advance to the finals. If you want to see more pics of each guy before casting your vote, simply click on their name to head over to their individual posts.

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Snuffbox with Pastoral Scenes

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Jean Marie Tiron, French, 1764-65 Gold and enamel

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“The son and brother of goldsmiths, Jean-Marie Tiron received his mastership on 27 November 1748 when he registered a mark described as having the letters I M T, device a level. On 11 December 1761 he replaced this mark with another incorporating the letters I (rendered more like a J), T, and the same device. While a number of boxes by Tiron bearing his second mark are known, only two dating before 1761 have been recorded.(1) It seems likely that Tiron, who began his career as a marchand orfèvre joaillier, a jeweler and dealer in precious stones, began to specialize in snuffboxes only in 1761, registering his new mark the year he took up residence with the prominent box maker Jean Ducrollay (active 1734 – ca. 1761), whose stock he acquired at about the same time. Described as a joaillier bijoutier du roi in 1764, Tiron was listed from 1765 as orfèvre bijoutier du roi, indicating that he no longer handled diamonds, pearls, and other precious stones. Tiron retired between 1771 and 1773; his death date is surmised from the evidence of the posthumous sale of his effects in May 1793.

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All the miniatures but one — that on the front depicting a seated girl reading — are traceable to compositions by François Boucher (1703 – 1770). On the cover is Les Charmes de la Vie Champêtre (1737, Louvre), seen here in reverse and thus presumably copied from that period’s only recorded engraving of the painting, by Jean Daullé, 1757. The scene on the base is Le Pasteur Galant (ca. 1738, Archives Nationales, Paris) and could have been copied from one of several engravings including those of A. Laurent and Claude Duflos, both, as here, reversed. The vignette on the right end of a seated youth holding a wreath and accompanied by a pair of doves appears to be a variation of La Poésie (ca. 1751 – 55, The Frick Collection, New York). Here the boy holds a wreath absent in the original, but the composition is otherwise identical. The painting was engraved in the same direction, as it appears here, by Duflos. On the left end, a seated youth with a fishing pole is copied from an engraving by Duflos of L’Hiver (1751), a painting retitled by the engraver as Le Pêcheur. On the back, a seated girl with a wreath and basket follows an engraving by Marie-Madeleine Igonet of Le Chant, another of the Frick panels, engraved under the title L’Amusement de la Bergère. The signature, previously misread as “Martin,”(2) is possibly that of Charles-Jacques de Mailly (1740 – 1817) or of the goldsmith-enameler Barnabé-Augustin de Mailly (1732 – after 1793), who were apparently not related. Biographical details of the two, and possibly attributions of their work, have been confused, and it is even unclear whether either of them is the enameler “Maillé” said to have been mentioned in Diderot’s Encyclopédie as being active in 1754.(3) A box of 1765 – 67 by L. P. de May in the Louvre, Paris,(4) is enameled with miniatures very different in subject matter and style, bearing the signature “De Mailly f.,” so the attribution must for the present be left open. The unusual number of consecutive countermarks, customarily struck at the onset of a new tax farm, implies that the box remained unsold in Tiron’s shop until after 1781.” • Catalogue entry from Claire Le Corbeiller. The Robert Collection. Decorative Arts, Volume XV. Wolfram Koeppe, et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 156-58. • NOTES: 1. Sale, Ortiz-Patino collection, Christie’s, London, 27 June 1973, lot 7 (1755 – 56); sale, Elizabeth Parke Firestone collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 19 November 1982, lot 50 (1759). 2. Norton, Richard, and Martin Norton. A History of Gold Snuff Boxes. London, 1938, p. 62. 3. Maze-Sencier 1885, p. 150. The passage remains untraced. Assuming the accuracy of the citation, it is also possible that the “Maillé” mentioned was the miniaturist Pierre-Victor-Nicolas de Malliée (or Maillée) (active 1748 – 74), whose signature is said to appear on the box by Tiron from the Ortiz-Patino collection. 4. Grandjean 1981, no. 77.

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Holy Martyrs of the Paris Foreign Missions

SAINT LAURENT IMBERT

Mgr Laurent Imbert, Joseph-Marius, bishop of Capse, martyr in Korea, was born on March 23, 1796, in the farm of Bricart, in Marignane (Bouches-de-Rhône)…

SAINT JACQUES CHASTAN

CHASTAN, Jacques-Honoré (Le Ve), martyr in Korea, was born in Marcoux (Basses-Alpes) on October 7, 1803. He began his studies at Brusquet, continued in the preparatory seminary in Embrun, and finished at the seminary in Digne.

SAINT PIERRE DUMOULIN-BORIE

‘I must warn you that I will follow my vocation wherever it calls me, even to the foreign missions.’ This is what Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, born on February 20, 1808, at Beynat, in the Department of Corrèze, declared to his parents when he informed them of his intention to join Sacred Orders.

SAINT FRANÇOIS JACCARD

François Jaccard was born on September 6, 1799, at Onion, in Haute-Savoie. His parents had him, their first child, after twenty years of marriage, and saw in his birth, a “sign of the Lord”; this child would probably become a priest.

SAINT JEAN-CHARLES CORNAY

‘Allow me to go to Paris, I will stay there for at least three years and I will have all the facilities there to test my vocation, and all the means to prepare for it if it is true.’ That was how Jean-Charles Cornay, born on February 27, 1809, at Loudon (Vienne), tried to convince his mother to let him follow the Lord’s call to the Paris Foreign Missions.

SAINT JOSEPH MARCHAND

According to his colleagues, he was ‘reserved without hiding it, serious without constraint, simple and joyful without exaggeration’. His reserve, however, made him conceal a secret that he shared with only one confidant: his younger brother Jean-Baptiste who also wanted to become a priest.

SAINT FRANÇOIS-ISIDORE GAGELIN

François-Isidore Gagelin was born on May 10, 1799, at Monperreux, in Doubs. He was baptised, discreetly, by a rebel priest, on July 14. His father died when he was two years old, and his two elder sisters took care of him. At the age of five he announced his desire to become a priest.

SAINT AUGUSTIN SCHOEFFLER

‘Christians do not dethrone kings, even during times of persecution. You will learn about their loyalty when you reign one day.’

SAINT JEAN-LOUIS BONNARD

Jean-Louis Bonnard was born on March 1, 1824 and was baptised the same day in Saint-Christôt-en-Jarez church, in the Loire valley.

SAINT THÉOPHANE VENARD

Saint Therese of Lisieux’s favourite martyr, Jean-Théophane Vénard, died at the beginning of 1861, aged 31.

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