
Pendant Shaped as a Horseman
Salomon Weininger · c. 1860/70, second half of the 19th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 85; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Detroit Institute of the Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959, no. 370.
- The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 47.
- Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, Enamels: The XII to the XVI Century, Feburary 2-March 2,1970, no. 38.
- London, Wartski Ltd., A Thousand Years of Enamel, May 18-June 5, 1971, no. 25.
- Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art,The Art of Jewelry, Spring 1975, no. 28.
Literature
Published references
- Donald F. Rowe, "A 'George in Gold' and Enamels in Chicago Collections," Apollo 95 (1972), p. 475, no. 22.
- Yvonne Hackenbroch, Renaissance Jewelry, London 1979, p. 155 (incorrectly cited as Waddeston Bequest).
- Hugh Tait, Catalogue of the Waddeston Bequest in the British Museum, vol. 1: The Jewels, London, 1986, pp. 124-25.
- Charles Truman, "Nineteenth-Century Renaissance-Revival Jewelry" in Ian Wardropper et al., Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 87-88, ill., 98, 105, cat. 49.
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