About This Artwork

French

Pendant or Hat Pin with Head of John the Baptist, 15th century

Gold, enamel, and carnelian
6.2 x 4.7 cm (2 7/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.301

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959, cat. 352.

Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry, 1964-66, cat. 57.

Chicago. Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, spring 1975, cat. 2.

Publication History

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Enseignes, Renaissance Hat Jewels (Florence, 1996), p. 15.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 32-33 and 92, no. 2.

Christina Nielsen, ed., Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 16 and 71, no. 47.

Ownership History

Monastery in Klagenfurt [according to D'Arcy 1975]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1958; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 10; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.




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