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Cameo with Battle of the Israelites and the Amalekites
(Renaissance Europe )
An artist working on this small scale needs dexterity to keep the details of a crowded battlefield crisp. A cameo of the same battle (described in Exodus 17), monogrammed HSR by the same talented but otherwise unidentified master, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and was in the Habsburg imperial collections by the early 1600s.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 1971-1972 | World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Germany (Place of Origin)
Measurements
1 9/16 x 2 1/16 in. (4 x 5.3 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1942
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.1193