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Casket with Scenes of David and Solomon
Pénicaud Studio · c. 1550
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frédéric Spitzer, Paris (d. 1890); his estate sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, no. 467, pl. 16; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago (d. 1932); by descent to his widow (d. 1937); bequeathed to the museum.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Cooper Union Museums for the Arts of Decoration, Enamel: An Historic Survey to the Present Day, 1954, no. 87.
- New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsman's Council, Enamels. September 18-November 29, 1959, no. 2.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2 – June 14, 1987.
Literature
Published references
- Claudius Popelin et al, La collection Spitzer, vol. 2: Emaux peints, etc. (Paris, 1891), pp. 34-35, no. 50.
- Bessie Bennett, "Some Examples of French Enamel Painting," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 27 (1933) p. 99.
- Ulrike Weinhold, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Maleremail aus Limoges im Grünen Gewölbe (Munich and Berlin, 2008), pp.52, 53 n. 16.
- Suzanne Higgott, The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels (London, 2011), pp. 228, 229, n. 63 [no. 467 in the Spitzer sale).
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