Pax with the Crucifixion with Six Angels
late 18th/early 19th Century
Artist
Venetian 18th/19th Century, after Francesco di Lorenzo Rosselli
Artwork overview
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Medium
nielloed silver in a gilded bronze frame
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
unframed: 10.2 × 7.3 cm (4 × 2 7/8 in.)
framed: 15 × 11.2 cm (5 7/8 × 4 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1961.9.175
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Trivulzio Collection, Milan, before 1844.[1] (Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, 1878-1955, Rome and Florence);[2] purchased 26 June 1935 by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York; gift 27 September 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Laura Aldovini, I Nielli Trivulzio. Storia, Tecnica, Collezionismo, Milan, 2021:249.
[2] The bill of sale included sculptures, maiolicas, furniture, antique velvets, paintings, and enamels, for a total of one hundred objects. Copy in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, (https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/acquisitions/ACQ143).
[3] An affidavit of 21 August 1956 by Herbert L. Spencer, executive director, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, states the Trivulzio collection of nielli and enamels were given by Samuel H. Kress to the Foundation on 27 September 1950; original in National Gallery of Art Archives. Secretary and General Counsel Records – Major Donor Files; copy in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1874
Esposizione storica dell’arte industriale, Salone dei Giardini di Porta Venezia, Milan, 1874, no. 18 or no. 43.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 8.
Bibliography
2021
Aldovini, Laura. I Nielli Trivulzio. Storia, Tecnica, Collezionismo. Milan, 2021: 182, 249-250, 301-302, 304, no. 85, fig. 74, plate XXIV.
Wikidata ID
Q63854512