The Money Counter (Geldzähler)

1630-1650

Leonhard Kern

Artist, German, 1588 - 1662

Leonhard Kern

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Provenance

(Von Frey, Paris);[1] Dr. Johannes Jantzen [1887-1972], Bad Homburg; private collection, Bremen; Galerie Neuse, Bremen; Robert H. Smith [1928-2009], Arlington, VA; by inheritance to his wife Clarice R. Smith [1933-2021], Arlington, VA; the Clarice R. Smith Revocable Trust; gift 2022 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from Art of the Renaissance bronze, 1500-1650 (see bibliography). Von Frey likely refers to Alexander von Frey [1882-1951], an art dealer active in Swizterland and Paris before moving to New York in.1948. He had a collection of small European Renaissance bronzes that was sold at Sotheby's London on 8 December 1988 (this work was not included in the sale). According to the catalogue, his collection was mostly complete by 1929.

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Bibliography

2007

  • Cristanetti, Simona, et al. Recent Acquisitions Made to the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Bronzes. London, 2007: 54-57, 60, repro. no. 65.

2015

  • Schmidt, Eike D., et al. Bronze, Boxwood, and Ivory in the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Sculpture. London, 2015: 5.

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