Brooch with Cameo of Spring after a relief by William Henry Rinehart

ca. 1862

5.4 cm 6.4 cm 1.9 cm

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This personification of spring is based on marble relief carved by William H. Rinehart in about 1855. A version of this relief carved in 1874 can be found in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (1985.350). William T. Walters commissioned at least three of these cameos.

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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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