Plate with Bacchus seducing Erigone; at the top, a shield of arms

c. 1540/1545

Francesco Durantino

Ceramist, Italian, active c. 1542 - active 1553

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.348

On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 48, repro.

2001

  • Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo [Perino del Vaga: between Raphael and Michelangelo], Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001, no. 91, repro.

Bibliography

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 66.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 14, as Urbino, about 1540.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 122, no. 7.

1993

  • Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 226-227, repro. 226.

Inscriptions

center reverse: d arigone inganta / da bacco [of Erigone deceived by Bacchus]

Markings

Kann collection labels 20, 190; blue-edged octagonal label, handwritten: S698, 5698, or G698, from the same sequence as the label on NGA 1942.9.349 (now in object folder, NGA Curatorial Records)

Wikidata ID

Q62131105

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