French

Gorget, 1600/10

Steel with gilding, brass, enamel, leather
Height: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
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.