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Cameo Portraying Emperor Claudius as Jupiter

Ancient Roman · Cameo: Roman, mid-first century Mount: Italian, late 16th century

Provenance

Ownership history

Thomas Howard, second Earl of Arundel (1586-1646); by descent to his widow Alethea Howard, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel (1583-1654); by descent to her grandson Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-1684); by descent to his widow Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (1643/4-1693); sold to Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough (1621-1697); by descent to his widow Penelope Mordaunt, Countess of Peterborough (1627-1702); by descent to her daughter Mary Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (c.1659-1705); by descent to her widower Sir John Germain, 1st Baronet (1650-1718); by descent to his widow Lady Elizabeth “Betty” Germain (1680-1769); given to her great-niece Lady Charles (Mary Beauclerk) Spencer (1743-1812), 1762; given to her brother-in-law, Lord George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), Blenheim Castle, Oxon; by descent to John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-1883) [descent from Thomas Howard to John Spencer-Churchill according to Story-Maskelyne 1870]; sold, Christies, London, June 28, 1875, lot 4, to David Bromilow (1809-1898), Bitteswell Hall, Lutterworth, England; by descent to his daughter Julia Harriet Mary Jary (1844-1920); sold, Christie’s, London, June 26-29, 1899, lot 4, to Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), London; by descent to his son Wyndham Cook (1860-1905), London; by descent to his widow Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook (1857-1925); by descent to her son Humphrey W. Cook (1893-1978) ,London; sold, Christie’s, London, July 14, 1925, lot 203, to Dr. Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), New York [according to annotated sales catalogue]; sold to Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), 1945; [according to Brummer Gallery records]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 11-14, 1949, lot 238, to Melvin Gutman (1886-1967), New York City [according to annotated sale catalogue and Brummer Gallery records]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, October 17, 1969, lot 52, to Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925-2019), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Jewels from the Collection of Melvin Gutman, 1951–62, no cat.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels from the Collection of Melvin Gutman, 1962–68, cat. 42 (ill.).
Martin D’Arcy Gallery of Art, Loyola University of Chicago, The Art of Jewelry 1450–1650: A Special Exhibition of Jewels and Jeweled Objects from Chicago Collections, Spring 1975, cat. 43 (ill.).
Mantua, Italy, Palazzo del Te and Palazzo Ducale, Gonzaga: La Celeste Galeria; L’Escercizio dell Collectionismo, September 2–December 8, 2002, cat. 84 (ill.).
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin im Alten Museum, Antikensammlung, Mythos und Macht: Erhabene Bilder in Edelstein, July 26, 2007–May 25, 2008 (cameo returned Feb. 18, 2008), no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012 - present.

Literature

Published references

Andrew Fountaine, The Arundel Cabinet (London, May 1731), p. 8, case D, no. 13, available at http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/browseBooks.asp.
Rudolf Erich Raspe, A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems, Cameos as well as Intaglios: Taken from the Most Celebrated Cabinets in Europe; and Cast in Coloured Pastes, White Enamel, and Sulphur by James Tassie, Modeller (J. Tassie and J. Murray, 1791), pp. 88–89, no. 965.
M. H. Nevil Story-Maskelyn, The Marlborough Gems, being a Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio, formed by George, Third Duke of Marlborough (1870), pp. 1–2, no. 4.
Marlborough Collection, Album of Photographs of the Gems (1875), p. 1, no. 4, available at http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/marlborough/default.htm.
Christie’s, London, Catalogue of the Marlborough Gems: Being a Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio, formed by George, Third Duke of Marlborough, sale cat. (Christie’s, London, June 28, 1875), pp. xxi, 2, no. 4.
Christie’s, London, The Marlborough Gems, sale cat. (Christie’s, London, June 26–29, 1899), lot 4.
Adolf Furtwängler, Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum (Giesecke & Devrient, 1900), vol. 1, pl. 65, no. 48; vol. 2, p. 302, no. 48 (ill.).
Christie’s, London, Catalogue of an Important Collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Antiquities, and Antique and Renaissance Gems: The Property of Humphrey W. Cook, sale cat. (Christie’s, London, July 14, 1925), lot 203.
Parke-Bernet, New York, Part Two of the Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of Joseph Brummer, sale cat. (Parke-Bernet, New York, May 11–14, 1949), lot 238 (ill.).
M. L. D’Otrange, “A Collection of Renaissance Jewels at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Connoisseur 130, 527 (Aug. 1952), p. 69 (ill.), p. 71.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Antiques, ed. L. G. G. Ramsey (Hawthorn Books, 1962), pp. 506–07, pl. 186, A.
Marie-Louise Vollenweider, Der Jupiter-Kameo (Kohlhammer, 1964), p. 11, n. 17.

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