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Inscription

around top circumference: LAVRENTIVS MEDICES; center: SALVS PVBLICA

Provenance

Schlessinger; purchased April 1939 by J.W. Frederiks [1889-1962], The Hague; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 23-24 May 1988, 1st day, no. 31); purchased by (Cyril Humphris, London) for NGA.

Exhibition History

2001
Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's 'Ginevra de' Benci' and Renaissance Portraits of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, no. 12, color repro.

Bibliography

2000
Luchs, Alison. "Lorenzo from Life?: Renaissance Portrait Busts of Lorenzo de' Medici." The Sculpture Journal 4 (2000): 9, fig. 8.
2007
Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 287, repro.

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