About This Artwork
Pendant Shaped as a Dog, late 16th/early 17th century (with later modifications)
Gold, enamels, diamond, rubies, and pearls
6.7 x 3 cm (2 5/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.521
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
M. L. Otrange, "Jewels of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century,” The Connoisseur 132 (1953), pp. 126-33, here 130. pl. 19.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 48-49 and 93, no. 15.
Ownership History
Henry Oppenheimer, b. Washington and later Frankfurt and London (d. 1932) [sold, Christie's, London, July 27-29, 1936, no. 60]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 91; Marilynn B. Alsdorf [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.