About This Artwork

Spanish

Two-Sided Pendant with the Presentation in the Temple; and the Resurrection, late 16th/early 17th century

Gold, pearls, and reverse painting (verre eglomisé) on rock crystal
7.7 x 3.6 cm (3 1/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.520

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 43-44 and 93, no. 10.

Ownership History

Professor Luigi Grassi (d. 1937), Florence, later New York [sold, New York, American Art Association, January 20-22, 1927, no. 444]. Mrs. Henry Walters (Sarah Jones Pembroke Walters, died 1943), New York and Baltimore [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, May 1-3, 1941, no. 1105]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, December 7, 1971, no. 44; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.