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Inscription

around top circumference: LAVINIA FONTANA ZAPPIA PICTRIX 1611; around bottom circumference:ANT[onio] CASONI

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased with the entire Dreyfus collection 9 July 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 31 January 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1957 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1998
Lavinia Fontana of Bologna 1552-1614, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 33, repro.
2000
The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 2000, no cat.
2019
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2019 - 2020, no. 21, repro.
2021
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2021 - 2022, no. 31.

Bibliography

1967
Hill, George Francis, and Graham Pollard. Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art. London, 1967: no. 477.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 189, no. 50.
2007
Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 548, repro.
2007
Wilson, Carolyn C. "Reviewed Work(s): Reading Vasari by Anne B. Barriault, Andrew Ladis, Norman E. Land and Jeryldene M. Wood." The Sixteenth Century Journal 38, 4 (Winter 2007): 1142.
2023
Lugli, Emanuele. "Lavinia Fontana's Freedom." Art History 46 (2023): 10, fig. 5.

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