Miniatures, ancient and modern . leve manners, finding out several newcolours. Before his time the palette of theenameller was a very restricted one. Hisfriend and future brother-in-law Pierre Bordieradvised him to work particularly at enamelminiatures, in which Petitot succeeded remark-ably in the production of the very difficult fleshcolour. It seems that at one time the twofriends worked together, Petitot doing the fleshand Bordier the accessories. It was, however, during their visit toEngland, and by reason of the learned andkindly help of Turquet de Mayerne, physicianto Charles I, and one
Miniatures, ancient and modern . leve manners, finding out several newcolours. Before his time the palette of theenameller was a very restricted one. Hisfriend and future brother-in-law Pierre Bordieradvised him to work particularly at enamelminiatures, in which Petitot succeeded remark-ably in the production of the very difficult fleshcolour. It seems that at one time the twofriends worked together, Petitot doing the fleshand Bordier the accessories. It was, however, during their visit toEngland, and by reason of the learned andkindly help of Turquet de Mayerne, physicianto Charles I, and one of the foremost chemistsof his time, that Petitot and Bordier found outthe secrets of their finest colours. Petitotsbeautiful work pleased our art-loving Charles Iimmensely, and exquisite enamel miniatureswere made of the Royal Family, many ofwhich still exist in every way as fresh andperfect as they w^ere when they cooled fromtheir last firing. Petitot mostly worked at portraits madefrom oil studies or coloured sketches, with,. K < M • »>* v» J< s: 2 ** H s 05 b^ < u ,^ =<5 o J D
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