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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1903.27
People
After Georges Liard Sr., French (active 1895-1913)
After Savelli Sperandio, Italian (Mantua c.1440 - 1528)
Title
Gianfrancesco Gonzaga II
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medal
Date
c. 1902
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232178

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
239.28 g, 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Franciscus Gonzaga Mantuae Marchio Ac Veneti Exerc[itus] Imp[erator] [=Francesco Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua and General of the Venetian Army]; back: Ob Restitutam Italiae Libertatem, Opus Sperandei [=for the sake of restoring liberty to Italy, work of Sperandio]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Georges Liard, Sr., Paris, France, sold; to Horatio Greenough Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1903.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horatio G. Curtis
Accession Year
1903
Object Number
1903.27
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum, Charles Moore, and Horatio Greenough Curtis, Catalogue of Bronze Reproductions of Italian and French Medals of the Renaissance, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, c. 1903), p. 12

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