About This Artwork

French

Gorget, c. 1600/10

Steel with gilding, brass, enamel, leather
H. 22.9 cm (9 in.)
George F. Harding Collection, 1982.2242

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Walter Karchieski, "Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago" (Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown, and Company, 1995), p. 69 (ill.).

Ownership History

Frederic Spitzer, Paris before 1892 (La collection Spitzer, antiquite moyen age-renaissance, tome sixtieme, number 66); sold June 10-14, 1895, Paris, lot 102 to Sigismund Bardac, Paris. S.E. Kennedy by March 1918. Sold Christie, Manson and Woods (London), 18 March 1918, lot 95, ill. to George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939); transferred to the George F. Harding Museum; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.