Oval Dish with River God and the Wedding Feast of Psyche

1554 (Renaissance)

57.2 cm 4.4 cm 44.5 cm

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The elegance and virtuosity of Pierre Courteys, who signed and dated this oval dish, comes out in the deceptively simple composition on the underside. The reclining river god is based on an engraving by the influential Italian engraver Marcantonio Raimondi (ca. 1475-ca. 1534)...

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Beurdeley Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 9-10, 1883, lot 97; Bourgeois frères [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Baron Oppenheim [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] no. 860; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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