Plaque with an Allegorical Representation of Charity

ca. 1545 (Renaissance)

21.2 cm 27.5 cm

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This plaque would have been made for a series illustrating the virtues, of which Love or Charity was considered one of the most important. In the dramatic and vigorous modeling and the forced posturing of the figures, this work by Jean II Pénicaud reveals the mannered style of...

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Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Castle [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Blenheim Castle Sale, London, June 14, 1883, no. 64; Lucien Cottreau [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 28-29, 1910, no. 56; J. Pierpont Morgan [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henri Daguerre, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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