Ludovico Trevisan, also known as Ludovico Scarampi (Mezzarota), died 1465, Patriarch of Aquileia December 1439, Cardinal July 1440 [obverse]

1440

Cristoforo di Geremia

Artist, Roman, active 1456 - 1476

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 3.94 cm (1 9/16 in.)
    gross weight: 36.9 gr (0.081 lb.)
    axis: 12:00

  • Accession

    1957.14.806.a

Associated Artworks

Triumphal Procession [reverse]

Cristoforo di Geremia

1440

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased with the entire Dreyfus collection 9 July 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 31 January 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1957 to NGA.
[1] The Duveen Brothers Records document the firm’s sixteen year pursuit and eventual acquisition of the Dreyfus collection, which included paintings, sculptures, small bronzes, medals, and plaquettes. Bequeathed as part of his estate to Dreyfus’ widow and five children (a son and four daughters), who had differing opinions about its disposition, the collection was not sold until after his widow’s death in April 1929. Duveen did not wish to separate Dreyfus’ collection of small bronzes, medals, and plaquettes, and it was sold intact to the Kress Foundation for a price that was met by installment payments every three months. (Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: reel 301, box 446, folders 3 and 4; reel 302, box 447, folders 1-6; reel 303, box 448, folders 1 and 2; reel 330, box 475, folder 4.) See also George Francis Hill’s discussion "A Note on Pedigrees" in his catalogue, The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Medals, Oxford, 1931: xii, which was commissioned by Duveen Brothers.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Da Pisanello alla nascita dei Musei Capitolini: L'Antico a Roma alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Musei Capitolini, Rome, 1988, no. 22.

2011

  • The Portrait in Renaissance Italy: From Masaccio to Bellini, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011-2012, no. 141, repro.

2018

  • Leonardo da Vinci and The Battle of Anghiari: The Mystery of Tavola Doria, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum; Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama; Nagoya City Art Museum; Fukuoka City Museum, 2018, not in catalogue (shown only in Nagoya and Fukuoka).

Bibliography

1967

  • Hill, George Francis, and Graham Pollard. Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art. London, 1967: no. 212.

2007

  • Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 242, repro.

2011

  • Luciano, Eleonora, ed. Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington. London, 2011: 2, fig. 2, as Medal of Ludovico Trevisan with Triumphal Procession.

2020

  • Malgouyres, Philippe. De Filarete à Riccio. Bronzes italiens de la Renaissance (1430-1550). La collection du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2020: 50-52, 50 fig, 11, dating the Trevisan medal to 1440, thus one of the earliest Renaissance medals.

Inscriptions

around circumference: L[udovicus] AQVILEGIENSIVM PATRIARCA ECCLESIAM RESTITVIT

Wikidata ID

Q63847516

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