Medallion with the Goddess Ops

1540-1549 (Renaissance) Diam: 8 3/4 in. (22.3 cm) Citation Source image

This medallion, signed by Leonard Limosin in gold on the lower right, portrays the goddess Ops, a personification of plentiful nature. Ops squeezes milk from her breasts to feed the beasts gathered at her feet: a goat, a deer, and a bear on the viewer’s left, and a lion and an...

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Rattier Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, March 21-24, 1859, lot 122; Charles Mannheim Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, no. 938; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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