Plate with three Satyrs

c. 1525

Gubbio 16th Century

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Gubbio 16th Century

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The image shows a pastoral landscape with fantastical creatures depicted in a colorful and vibrant style. Two half-human, half-animal figures are engaged in various activities within the scene, which features a vividly painted sky, a flowing stream, and lush greenery. The central roundel of the dish shows a smaller scene with a figure interacting with a creature inside a circular frame surrounded by a golden rim. On the right side, a rocky formation is visible with another creature climbing or reaching. The style is reminiscent of Early Italian Renaissance art, particularly maiolica ware known for intricate and colorful narrative scenes with mythological or fantastical themes.

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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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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: 111.

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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 257, no. 28.

1955

  • Von Erdberg, Joan Prentice. "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art." The Burlington Magazine 97, no. 624 (March 1955): 73, 75 fig. 11.

  • Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 63.

Wikidata ID

Q62287792

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