18th C Wedgwood Black Basalt Medallion Cameo Portrait of LE SEUEUR
- For your consideration is an impressive oval cameo portrait made of black basalt
- It features a 17th century man profile facing right
- He is Eustache Le Sueur (1617-1655), a French artist, one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarly for his paintings of religious subjects. Le Sueur was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism movement.
- Masterly depicted with great detail
- The plaque is marked Wedgwood on the back with the mixed-case mark, with individual impressions made by using movable type printers, each letter separately, which dates this example before the 1780s
- Circa 1767–1780, England
- Very RARE
- Please see the other works by Wedgwood, listed separately, that came from the same collection.
- Measurements: Approximately 2.05" x 1.65"
- Condition: Very Good overall. Please see photos. Two hardly discernable surface flakes at the edge, one upfront under the letters LE, the other on the back. All original.
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