About This Artwork

Spanish or South German

Baroque pearl mounted as cat and mouse, late 16th/early 17th century

Enameled gold and pearl
2.7 x 4 cm (1 1/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.499

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, 1948.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1951-62.

Publication History

M. L. Otrange, "A Collection of Renaissance Jewels at The Art Institute of Chicago," The Connoisseur 130 (1952), p. 70.

Peter Stone, Baroque Pearls, Apollo 69 (1959), p. 108.

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewelry (London, 1979), p. 154.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), p. 69 and 96, no. 32.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1951; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 88; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.