Costume Ornament with Profile Portrait
Costume Ornament with Profile Portrait
- Artist
- North Italian 14th Century
- Artist Dates
- 14th century
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Costume Ornament with Profile Portrait
- Date
- c. 1380/1400
- Medium
- repoussé silver, gilded and translucent enamel, attached to a strip of velvet
- Dimensions
- disk diameter: 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in)
- K Number
- O150/5
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.9.190
- Notes
Provenance
Reportedly Trivulzio collection, Milan; (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); purchased by 1937 or 1939 by Samuel H. Kress, New York,[1] as Sienese, c. 1500; gift 27 February 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] A letter from A. M. Hind to John Walker, 12 June 1951, states that Hind first heard (from Alfred Frankfurter, editor of _The Art News_) of the Trivulzio nielli, with which this enamel was acquired, in Kress's hands in 1937. Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, in a letter to Alison Luchs of 25 June 1984, mentions a sale of the Trivulzio collection in London, 6 June 1939; no catalogue has been located. [2] Deposition by Herbert L. Spencer, executive director, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 21 August 1956, in the secretary-general counsel's office files, National Gallery of Art, Kress no. 0-150/1-9.