About This Artwork

Spanish

Pendant with the Penitent Saint Jerome, mid-17th/early 18th century

Gold, enamels, emeralds, baroque pearl, and pearls
6.5 x 4.1 cm (2 9/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
MA engraved on the back
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.527

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1948.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, November 18, 1958 - January 4, 1959, cat. 358.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 24.

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 47-48 and 93, no. 14.

Ownership History

Professor Luigi Grassi (d. 1937), Florence, later New York [sold, New York, American Art Galleries, January 20-22, 1927, no. 480]. Mrs. Henry Walters (Sarah Jones Pembroke Walters, d. 1943), New York and Baltimore [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, November 30, December 1-4, 1943, no. 988]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1958; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 42; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p.4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.




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