Plate with the reconciliation of Cupid and Minerva

1525

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.333

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Émile Gavet [1830-1904], Paris.[1] Richard Zschille [1847-1903], Leipzig; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 23 June 1899, no. 92, repro.)[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, Paris, and New York); purchased by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] Darcel, Alfred, "Le moyen âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro, XIV. Les faïences italiennes," GBA, 2d ser., 18 (1878): 977, mentions as exhibited by Gavet at the 1878 Exposition Universelle "une assiette à larges bords representant un Amour offrant une palme à une femme" marked M G [with superscript o's after both letters] and dated 1525, which must be this piece; it does not appear in the 1889 catalogue of the Gavet collection by Emile Molinier, or in the catalogue of the Gavet sale in Paris, 31 May-9 June 1897, so it had presumably been sold previously.
[2] Catalogue of the Italian majolica...of Herr Richard Zchille, London, 1899: no. 92, repro., as Gubbio, workshop of Maestro Giorgio. The name of the purchaser at the Zschille sale is given in the marked catalogue in the Christie's archive as "Müller."

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1878

  • Exposition Universelle Internationale, Trocadéro, Paris, 1878.

1982

  • Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 42.

2018

  • Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018

Bibliography

1878

  • Exposition Universelle Internationale. Exh. cat. Trocadéro, Paris, 1878.

  • Darcel, Alfred. "Le moyen âge et la Renaissance au Trocadéro; XIV. Les faïences italiennes." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2d ser., 18 (1878): 977.

1899

  • Falke, Otto von. Sammlung Richard Zschille; Katalog der italienischen Majoliken. Leipzig, 1899: no. 92, repro.

1933

  • Ballardini, Gaestano. Corpus della maiolica italiana. 2 vols. Rome, 1933-1938: 1: no. 17, figs. 165, 297.

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 60.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 13, as Gubbio (Maestro Giorgio Andreoli).

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 119, no. 2.

1988

  • Fiocco/Gherardi 1988-1989, 2:416, 420, n. 10, 570.

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: 177-179, repro. 178.

Inscriptions

in center reverse, flanking an "owner's mark" incorporating a double cross and a letter S: 1525 / Mo.Go.

Markings

Duveen (?) label: "The design is probably after Robetta"

Wikidata ID

Q62131085

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