Pax with the Annunciation

c. 1500 (shell cameo); c. 1500/1520 (setting)

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    shell, gilded silver, copper, and enamel

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (shell): 300 x 6.4 cm (118 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
    overall (setting): 21.6 x 14.6 cm (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.286

On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G18

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Émile Molinier, Paris (?), "said to have come from a church in Florence";[1] purchased by Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, by 1918?[2], as Italian, fifteenth century; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, after purchase by funds of the Estate, 1942.
[1] Widener 1935, 33. [2] A note in the Widener card file in NGA Curatorial Records, reads "in 1918(?) inventory."

Associated Names

Bibliography

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 33.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 10, as Italian 15th Century, Pax, carved on a shell.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 213, no. 1, as Franco-Flemish, fifteenth century, in a later, possibly Italian setting.

1993

  • Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 67-71, repro. 68.

Inscriptions

on scroll held by angel: AVE GRACIA PLENA DO...NVS;on base of setting: AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA.DNS TECV

Wikidata ID

Q62131009

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