Plate with Narcissus, Cupid, and Echo Transformed by Francesco Xanto Avelli
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Plate with Narcissus, Cupid, and Echo Transformed

Francesco Xanto Avelli · c. 1530

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Frédéric Spitzer (died 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, see Molinier 1892, p. 33, no. 49; 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, 1937.

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Literature

Published references

  • Greta Kaucher, Le peintre du Marsyas de Milan. La majolique historiée à Urbino en 1530 (Paris: Feu et Talent, 2024), 74, 317, no. VI.
  • Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris: 1892), 33, no. 49.
  • Joan Prentice von Erdberg and Marvin C. Ross, Catalogue of the Italian Majolica in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore: 1952), 25, no. 50.
  • Jörg Rasmussen, The Robert Lehman Collection. vol. 10, Italian Majolica (New York: 1989), 131, no. 76.
  • Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (Milan: 1996), 188, 190.

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