About This Artwork

Northern European (Frame: French?)

Pendant with Pearl Figure, late 16th century (with 19th-century additions) though probably 19th century

Gold, enamel, lapis lazuli, and pearl
10.5 x 5.1 cm (4 1/8 x 2 1/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.293

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry, 1964-66, cat. 39.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry, Spring 1975, cat. 29.

Publication History

Ana Somers Cocks and Charles Truman, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (1984), p. 66, fig. 1.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 82-91 and 97, no. 44.

Ownership History

Frédéric Spitzer (1815-1890), Vienna and Paris, [sold, Paris, Mannheim and Chevallier, April 17-June 16, 1893, no. 1817]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1964; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 98; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.