From our Romance Collection....
This superb Victorian Art Nouveau Brass repousse compact with an Art Nouveau Woman and goat is simply dripping with Amour!!!
The raised detail cannot be appreciated in the attached photos from the stunning beauty, down to the Gargoyles and gothic Village in the background .
The piece is signed by the artist Jacques Edouard on the lower left hand side at the womans wrist.
The rim has a glorious Floral motif and the inside has the original mirror and Powder puff with the celluloid ring intact and in quite good condition!
The compact has been made into a pendant suspended on an antique strand of Green Glass Filigree beads further embellished with Four Pearl drops of graduating size.
Truly a One of a Kind find with a historical note!
Chain measures 22”, compact is 1 5/8" in diameter.
Lynn Konrad
History of the artist:
(b Paris, 4 Nov 1788; d Paris, 9 Feb 1881).
Son of Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux. He trained with his father and also studied sculpture and modelling under Jean-Guillaume Moitte. In 1809 he won the Prix de Rome for medal-engraving.
In Rome he formed a friendship with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and executed a medal commemorating the Villa Medici, the home of the Acadamie de France in Rome. On his return to Paris in 1813 he contributed first to Vivant Denon's medallic history of Napoleon I's reign and then, from 1816, to the Galerie metallique des grands hommes francais.
For the latter he executed 17 portrait medals, including those of Pierre Corneille, Victor Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne and Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu. Among his official commissions were the coronation medals of Charles X (1824) and Louis-Philippe (1830), and the Marriage of the Prince Royal (1837). Gatteaux also executed a number of portrait busts, including posthumous ones of Francois Rabelais (Versailles, Chateau) and Michelangelo (Paris, Louvre), as well as statues.
He was notable among French medallists of the first half of the 19th century in executing all but one of his 289 medals from his own designs. The exception was that for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, after a drawing by Ingres.
Elected a member of the Acadamie des Beaux-Arts in 1845, the younger Gatteaux was an influential teacher, whose most famous pupil was Eugene Oudin.
His fine collection of works of art went, after his death, to the Louvre and to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. | 
