Object details
Object number
S15w33
Creator(s)
Matteo De'Pasti
(Veronese, about 1420 - after 1467, Rimini)
Title
Medal of Isotta degli Atti da Rimini (d.1470)
Date
about 1446
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.)
Additional Dimensions
Diameter: 8.26 cm (3 1/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (obverse): D. I S O T T A E A R I M I N E N S I
Dated (reverse): M. C C C C . X L V I .
Provenance
Collection of an unknown art dealer in Frankfurt, possibly Hess.
Purchased by the art collector Gustave Dreyfus, Paris from the dealer in Frankfurt for Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased from Gustave Dreyfus, Paris on 31 May 1893 for 1000 francs through Ralph W. Curtis (1854–1922), American painter and collector.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim. Catalogue des Objets d'Art et de haute curiosite Antiques, du Moyen-Age & de la Renaissance composant l'importante et precieuse Collection Spitzer (Paris, 13 April - 16 June 1893), possibly lot. 1363.
"Loans Recieved in 1908." Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, 1908), p. 105.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 100.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 45 (7 Jul. 1963), pp. 1-2.
Frederick den Broeder. "Italian Renaissance Medals." Fenway Court (Jan. 1967), pp. 25-32, ill. 30. (perhaps by an assistant of Matteo de'Pasti)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston: 1977), pp. 131-32, no. 163.
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt. "Mrs. Gardner's Renaissance." Marks of Identity: New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Italian Sculpture. Fenway Court, vol. 23 (1990-1991), pp. 10-30, no. 3.
Stephen K. Scher. Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance (New York, 1994), pp.64-76, no. 13.
Tanya Karpiak. "The medallic secrets of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." The Medal (Autumn 2014), pp. 14-15.
Gallery
Early Italian Room
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