Pendant with Intaglio Portrait of Anna of Austria in Enameled Frame

Applied Arts of Europe

19th century (?)

French (?)

This portrait had been thought to date about 1570, when Anna Maria of Austria married King Phillip II of Spain. It is likely, however, this refined intaglio image was carved after a contemporary painting but in the nineteenth century. The frame executed in a delicate process known as émail en résille sur verre emulated a seventeenth-century technique but was certainly done in the nineteenth century.

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Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Pendant with Intaglio Portrait of Anna of Austria in Enameled Frame
Place: France (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1800–1899
Medium: Intaglio: rock crystal Frame: enamel, glass, gold, and pearl
Inscriptions: Inscribed: "D'ANNA MARLE D'AVSTRICE R: D'SPAGE"
Dimensions: 9.6 × 6.4 × 1.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1991.381
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Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Exhibition, The Martin J. Desmoni Collection of Renaissance Jewels, Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum Bulletin (Oct., 1959), pp. 4-5, fig. 3.
Ana Somers Cocks and Charles Truman, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance jewels, gold boxes and objets du vertu (London, 1984), pp. 94-95.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 65-66 and 96, no. 29.

San Francisco, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of Renaissance Jewels Selected from the Collection of Martin J. Desmoni, January 6-May 31, 1959, cat. 35.
Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, The Martin J. Desmoni Collection of Renaissance Jewels, 1959.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 45.
Chicago, The Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 33.

Martin J. Desmoni, New York, by 1959 [sold, London, Sotheby’s, May 17, 1960, no. 93]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 51; Marilynn B.Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1991.

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