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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9606514, member: 79705&quot;]Not as many multi full figure cameos appeal to me, but I had to have this one. Appears to be young Queen Victoria on the occasion of her coronation in 1837, surrounded by some putti with nice abs...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]467078[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I looove the details on this. Layered clouds, amazing fruit and flower wreaths and swags...even the figures have such attention. The tiny toes carved away from the cloud to hang, and the fat ankles! Each putti has a different hair style. This is my largest piece to-date at 2 3/8&quot; and the artist made use of the space!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m guessing the image was based on these two of Queen Vic, from the time of her coronation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]467082[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]467083[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I bought it I could just make out an &quot;L&quot; when zoomed in and I assumed it must be Lamant. And huzzah, it was...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]467080[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I&#039;m interested...it was discussed in a couple threads that there were at least 2 Lamants. <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/signed-cameo-lamont-lamant-iii.67705/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/signed-cameo-lamont-lamant-iii.67705/">In this one</a> the translation that might reveal both Victor and Louis were carvers. There are <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/page-11#post-767714" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/page-11#post-767714">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/page-11#post-768228" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/page-11#post-768228">documents</a> in the Signatures thread that place Victor in Paris circa 1850, and a Lamant <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/page-12#post-768822" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/page-12#post-768822">in England</a> in 1865. Also the descendant who says Louis was in England in 1852.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I have a piece that is the &quot;separate letters&quot; hooked &quot;L&quot; Lamant who is making what seems to be a piece of the English monarch around her coronation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does this mean:</p><p>- He made it in Paris as a souvenir for English tourists. This seems an interesting thing to do in France 7-ish years after the July Revolution and the installation of &quot;popular sovereignty&quot; as opposed to a hereditary one Queen V enjoyed. I have to imagine that looking like you supported absolute monarchies during this period was dicey. They exiled their king for good in &#039;48.</p><p><br /></p><p>- He lived in England around 1937 and then moved back to France at some point?</p><p><br /></p><p>- Someone asked for this commission well after Queen V was on the throne, married, and a mother to 7 in 1850. It seems odd to me to make an image celebrating the coronation of her youth at this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll probably never know the answer but it&#039;s a curious data point to the overall Lamant mystery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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