Brooch with Cameo of Spring after a relief by William Henry Rinehart

Description This personification of spring is based on marble relief carved by William H. Rinehart in about 1855. A version of this relief carved in 1874 can be found in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (1985.350). William T. Walters commissioned at least three of these cameos.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/07/1964	Treatment	cleaned
6/14/1983	Examination	examined for loan
7/11/1984	Treatment	cleaned
11/18/1987	Examination	examined for condition
3/15/2004	Examination	examined for loan

Exhibitions

• Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
• Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. 1984-1987.
• Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery and the Zucker Family Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987.
• The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry. The Bard Graduate Center, New York. 2004-2005.
• Rinehart's Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2015.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters