Large enamel panel on copper depicting Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan known as "the Great Saint Michael" after Raphael 1518 and preserved at the Louvre Museum.
The archangel, balanced on his leg, slays Satan with horns and wings. The background features a landscape in grisaille and gold, the fires emerging from the ground are highlighted by enameled silver spangle work. The plaque is set in a Renaissance-style painting and bordered by four enamel plaques decorated with white grotesques on a blue background. The enamel is signed Mansuy-Dotin for Marie Lucie Mansuy-Dotin, a Parisian miniaturist.
Marie Lucie Mansuy Dotin (1846 Paris-1916 Neuilly) was the daughter of Frédéric Alphonse Dotin and Amélie Henriette Lemaire, both enamelers. In 1866, she married the engraver Jules Mansuy (1838-1902). Marie Lucie Mansuy Dotin was a student of the painter Pierre Emile Metzmacher and Claudius Popelin, an enamelist, painter, and poet on Rue Saint Sauveur in Paris. Marie Lucie Mansuy Dotin exhibited at the Salon held at the Palais des Champs-Élysées from 1875 to 1877. She exhibited enamelled works depicting Diane de Poitiers and Persée délivrant Andromède from 1875 to 1877. Marie Lucie had a painter daughter, Lucie Mansuy (1874-1938), who took the name Suzanne Lucie to distinguish herself from her mother.
Marie Lucie Mansuy Dotin's works were also exhibited at the Philadelphia Salon in 1876. At the Salon de l'Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs in 1905, she won the prize for decorative art.
Period:  end of the 19th century. Circa 1875-1880.
Price 2750€