Plate with Amphiaraus and Eriphyle (from the Hercules Service)

1532

Painted by Francesco Xanto Avelli

Associated Names
Francesco Xanto Avelli

Ceramist, Italian (Rovigo), active in Urbino, c. 1486/1487 - after 1542

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin; by inheritance to his widow, Julie Hainauer [1850-1926], Berlin; purchased 1906 with the entire Hainauer collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 17 October 1906 to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[1] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series I.D, General business records, 1907-1964, reel 59, box 163, Hainauer collection sales ledger, July 1906-December 1909; copy in NGA curatorial files.

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Exhibition History

2018

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

Bibliography

1897

  • Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 115, no. 332 (M52).

1925

  • Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 260, no. 52.

1955

  • Von Erdberg, Joan Prentice. "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art." The Burlington Magazine 97, no. 624 (March 1955): 73-74.

  • Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 79.

1986

  • Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 130-131, no. 51, repro.

Inscriptions

upper center, shield of arms: Or, Hercules rending the Nemean lion proper; across reverse: .1532. / Quell' auara moglie / di Amphiarao. / Nel.VIIII.L.deOuidio Meth: / .fra : Xanto.A.Roui / giese, i Urbino / pi (That greedy wife of Amphiaraus / In the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses / Francesco Xanto Avelli from Rovigo in Urbino painted it)

Wikidata ID

Q62287982

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