Figure of Saint Paul

Applied Arts of Europe

1863/1876

Salomon Weininger, workshop of
Austrian, 1822-1879

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Salomon Weininger
Title: Figure of Saint Paul
Place: Italy (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.: 1850–1900
Medium: Gold, silver, enamel, and diamond
Dimensions: 6.6 × 2.1 cm (2 1/2 × 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.551
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Charles Truman, “Nineteenth-century Renaissance-Revival Jewelry” in Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 91, ill., 98, 107, no. 53.
Paulus Rainer, “‘Nothing which Made Me Doubt its Authenticity’ (Sir Augustus W. Franks, British Museum, 1877): Salomon Weininger’s Forgeries and Some Aspects of their British Fortune,” in A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, ed. Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton (London, 2017), p. 184.

J. Schmidt [according to Gutman sale catalogue, p. 18]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 38; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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