Cupid Teaching a Lion to Sing (reverse only)
Pisanello, Italian, 1395 - 1455about 1444
Lead medal (uniface)
Overall: 3 15/16 × 4 × 1/4 in. (10 × 10.1 × 0.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019
2016.64.30
Geography/Culture
Europe, Italy
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture: Medal
Classification
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscription
Obverse: None Reverse: OPVS / PISANI / PICTORIS / M / CCCC / XLIII [pellets between words]
Course History
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014
ARTH 84, Media and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture, Adrian Randolph, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
Renaissance and Mannerist Plaquettes and Medals from the Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19-November 21, 2013.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.
European Bronzes from the Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19, 1996-June 22, 1997, no. 8.
Publication History
Roger Arvid Anderson, The Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Medals, Medallions, Plaquettes and Small Reliefs, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper and Textiles, San Francisco: Roger Arvid Anderson (published privately), design by David L. Wilson, 2015, p. 14. (EL. number is incorrect, should be EL.S.992.46.24 not .29)
Provenance
Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc., New York, New York, date unknown; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, date unknown; lent to present collection, 1992; given to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kress, No. 10; Hill Corpus, No. 32.
Old Number
EL.S.992.46.24
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