Hat-Badge with Apollo and Marsyas (or possibly Orpheus)
mid 16th century
Artist
French 16th Century
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25
Artwork overview
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Medium
enamel on copper
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Credit Line
Gift of Lisa Unger Baskin in honor of Nicholas Penny and Mary Wall
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Dimensions
diameter: 5.8 cm (2 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.150.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Leonard (1922-2000) and Lisa Unger Baskin, Leeds, Massachusetts; gift 2008 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Pregio e bellezza: Cammei e intagli dei Medici [Precious and Beautiful: Cameos and Intaglios of the Medici], Museo degli Argenti, Florence, 2010, no. 62, repro., as Apollo and Marsyas.
Inscriptions
in gold around circumference: * * OR * PHEVS * * *
Wikidata ID
Q62287634