Plate with Bacchus seducing Erigone; at the top, a shield of arms, c. 1540/1545

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G16

Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.348

Artists / Makers

Francesco Durantino (ceramist) Italian, active c. 1542 - active 1553

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Inscription

center reverse: d arigone inganta / da bacco [of Erigone deceived by Bacchus]

Marks and Labels

Kann collection labels 20, 190; blue-edged octagonal label, handwritten: S698, 5698, or G698, from the same sequence as the label on NGA 1942.9.349 (now in object folder, NGA Curatorial Records)

Provenance

Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 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.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kann, Maurice
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Exhibition History

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. 48, repro.

2001: Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo [Perino del Vaga: between Raphael and Michelangelo], Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001, no. 91, repro.

Technical Summary

Earthenware, covered front and back with a whitish tin glaze with a few pockmarks. There is a low molding beneath the edge. The painting is in blue, brown, yellow, orange, green, black, and white; the green has bubbled somewhat. On the edge on the front are four neat kiln-support marks. The edge is chipped in places.

Bibliography

1935: Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 66.

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 14, as Urbino, about 1540.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 122, no. 7.

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: 226-227, repro. 226.