Inscription
around circumference: GVILEL[mus] D[ei] G[ratia] PR[inceps] AVRAICAE O[mes] NASSAVIAE 1577; around bottom circumference: COEN BLOC F; lower left incised on truncation: AET[atis] 44
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.
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. 638.
- 2007
- Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 2:no. 776, repro.
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