Masséot Abaquesne
Masséot Abaquesne (* around 1500 in Cherbourg , † 1564 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen ) was a French potter and faience artist .
Life
Little is known about Masséot Abaquesne's education. He is mentioned for the first time in a document from Rouen from October 1526 as emballeur (" packer "). He produced real faience, first for a factory in Rouen, of which he became director, and is thus one of the first French faience makers, 20 years before Bernard Palissy . 1527/28 he worked on the decorations of the Château de Madrid , where he stuck to the designs of the Florentine architect Girolamo Della Robbia . The construction of this castle was ordered by King Francis I , with whose court Abaquesne was connected. Abaquesne's decorations were partially preserved.
In 1530 Abaquesne produced the tiled floor for the pigeon house in Boos , a municipality that is now in the French department of Seine-Maritime . In 1542 he created his most important work for the Connétable Anne de Montmorency , the wall and floor cladding of the Écouen Castle . It also portrayed episodes from Roman history. Pieces of these tiled floors, which show the legendary Roman figures Gaius Mucius Scaevola and Marcus Curtius , are in the Musée Condé in Chantilly . In May 1545 Abaquesne was entrusted by a pharmacist from Rouen with the production of 4152 pharmacy jars. In the same year he created the flooring in the castle of Polisy . From 1548 he had a workshop in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. The floor of the chapel of La Bastie d'Urfé Castle was Abaquesne's work from 1557. The client was Claude d'Urfé , governor of the children of Henry II ; Abaquesne's earnings for this amounted to 559 livres tournois . In the 19th century, parts of this floor were divided into various private and public collections, such as the Louvre .
The influence of Italian majolica on the works of Masséot Abaquesne is noticeable . He was married to Marie Durand, who continued to run his workshop after his death; his son Laurent Abaquesne produced, among other things, pharmaceutical vessels.
literature
- O. Popovitch: Abaquesne, Masséot . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 33 f.
- H. Stein: Abaquesne (Masséot et Laurent) . In: Dictionnaire de biographie française (DBF). Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 24f.
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Remarks
- ↑ These data are taken from the corresponding article on French Wikipedia; according to O. Popovitch (AKL vol. 1, p. 33), Masséot Abaquesne was born in Cotentin and died in Rouen before 1564 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abaquesne, Masséot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French potter and faience artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1564 |
| Place of death | Sotteville-lès-Rouen |