About This Artwork

French

Broach Shaped as a Bow, 17th or 19th century

Enameled and silver gilt, aquamarines
4.4 x 5.2 cm (1 3/4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.515

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, 1951-62.

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 27, 74-75 and 96, no. 37.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 195; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 3, 1970, lot 68; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.