Alexander the Great
Medium
Painted and partly gilded enamel on copper
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Classification
Enamels
Culture
French, Limoges
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, John H. and Susan Gutfreund Gift, 1993
Accession Number
1993.65.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Colin Nouailher|Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen · 1471–1571
Colin Nouailher, also known as Couly II Nouailher or simply Colin—a patois diminutive for Nicolas—was a prominent French enameler born around 1514 in Limoges and died circa 1588. The son of Couly Nouailher I, another enameler from the same city, he was the second family member to adopt the sobriquets Couly and Colin. Active from at least 1539 to 1545, with works extending later, Nouailher signed h...