Dish with the fall of Icarus, 1551

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Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by diameter): 5.1 × 23.5 cm (2 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.4005

Artists / Makers

Sforza di Marcantonio (ceramist) Italian

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Inscription

center reverse: iccharo peruolar tro / ppo sublime nel mar / folle garzon chadde ie. / morio 1551 (Icarus, by flying too high, fell into the sea, crazy young man, and died 1551); below the text, within a circle, the Hainauer catalogue number: 44

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.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hainauer, Julie
Hainauer, Oskar

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: 113, no. 324 (M44).

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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 259, no. 44.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 95.

1986: Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 185, no. 116, repro.