Lock Face Plate, 16th century

Not on View

Medium

gilded bronze

Dimensions

overall: 17.6 x 17.5 cm (6 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.151.a

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hainauer, Julie
Hainauer, Oskar
Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

1989: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin, 1989, brochure, no. 7.

1998: A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 105, as Lock Face Plate and Strap.

Bibliography

1908: A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 20, repro.

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.

1989: Avery, Charles. "Fontainebleau, Milan, or Rome? A Mannerist Bronze Lockplate and Hasp." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):298, 299, 304, repro.