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Inscription

around circumference: FREDERICVS TERCIVS ROMANORVM IMPERATOR SEMPER AVGVSTVS

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased with the entire Dreyfus collection 9 July 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 31 January 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1957 to NGA.

Exhibition History

2011
The Portrait in Renaissance Italy: From Masaccio to Bellini, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011-2012, no. 109, repro. (shown only in New York).

Bibliography

1967
Hill, George Francis, and Graham Pollard. Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art. London, 1967: no. 249.
2007
Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 283, repro.
2008
Baskins, Cristelle, et al. The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. Boston, 2008: 56 fig. 38, 59.

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