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Pendant with a Personification of Fortitude
(Baroque Europe )
An enameled gold and jeweled pendant, the openwork scrolled back-plate with various colored leaves, flowers, and shells, the front set with a large table cut diamond in a high cusped box collet, sides with black arabesques on a blue base, flanked by a pair of table cut diamonds in square collets. It is crowned with an allegorical figure in half relief of a care breasted woman in red drapery clasping a column and riding a stag with head turned back to look at the woman. One of its antlers is now missing. The combinatin suggests a personification of Fortitude.
The chain and attachments with surrounding flourishes are 19th-century repairs and embellishments, probably by Reinhold Vasters (1827-1909).
Provenance
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Frédéric Spitzer, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 1893, Lot 1819 [Sale catalogue plate XLVII]; Belle da Costa Greene [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 1987-1992 | Artful Deception: The Craft of the Forger. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester; The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport. |
| 1980-1981 | Court Jewels of the Renaissance 1500-1630. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. |
| 1979-1980 | Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| Examination | examined for condition | |
| 5/11/1972 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 4/26/1980 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 2/10/1988 | Treatment | cleaned; examined for condition |
| 5/9/1991 | Examination | examined for condition |
Geographies
Germany, Aachen (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H w/ chain: 5 × W: 2 3/8 × D: 1 3/16 in. (12.7 × 6 × 3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library in memory of Miss Belle Da Costa Greene, 1951
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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44.622