About This Artwork

Spanish

Two-Sided Pendant with Symbols of Christ and the Passion; and Christ in the Temple among Elders, late 16th/early 17th century

Gold, enamels, and dark-brown ink on off-white ground (in depiction of the Temple)
8.2 x 6.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.503

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 13.

Publication History

M. L. Otrange, "Jewels of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," The Connoisseur (1953), p. 133, fig. 22.

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 42-43 and 93, no. 9.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 31; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wadropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.