About This Artwork

French (?)

Pendant with Intaglio Portrait of Anna of Austria in Enameled Frame, 19th century (?)

Intaglio: rock crystal
Frame: enamel, glass, gold, and pearl
9.3 x 6.3 cm (3 7/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
Inscribed: "D'ANNA MARLE D'AVSTRICE R: D'SPAGE"
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1991.381

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

San Francisco, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of Renaissance Jewels Selected from the Collection of Martin J. Desmoni, January 6-May 31, 1959, cat. 35.

Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, The Martin J. Desmoni Collection of Renaissance Jewels, 1959.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 45.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 33.

Publication History

Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Exhibition, The Martin J. Desmoni Collection of Renaissance Jewels, Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum Bulletin (Oct., 1959), pp. 4-5, fig. 3.

Ana Somers Cocks and Charles Truman, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance jewels, gold boxes and objets du vertu (London, 1984), pp. 94-95.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 65-66 and 96, no. 29.

Ownership History

Martin J. Desmoni, New York, by 1959 [sold, London, Sotheby's, May 17, 1960, no. 93]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 51; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1991.