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Plate with Hero leaping to her death from her tower and the drowned Leander; in the center, a shield of arms
Giorgio Andreoli, Francesco Xanto Avelli1538
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Plate with Hero leaping to her death from her tower and the drowned Leander; in the center, a shield of arms
- Creator: Attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli and a collaborator, probably in Urbino; probably lustered in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio, or by Vicenzo Andreoli, Urbino
- Date Created: 1538
- Physical Dimensions: overall (diameter): 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Louis-Fidel Debruge Duménil [d. 1838], Paris; (Debruge-Dumenil sale, Paris, 23 January-9 February and 4-12 March 1850, no. 1146). Prince Petr Soltykoff [c. 1801-1889], Paris; (his sale, Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, no. 698, as by Xanto). (Roussel, Paris). Perhaps Baron Achille Seillière [1813-1873], Paris, and Chateau de Mello.[1] Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers Inc., London, Paris, and New York); 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. [1] Alfred Darcel, "Le moyen age et la renaissance au Trocadéro: XIV: Les faïences italiennes," _Gazette des beaux-arts_, 2d ser., 18 (1878): 974, mentions a lustered plate with Hero and Leander having been exhibited in the 1878 exhibition, and another plate with "Pyrrhus sauvé," attributed to Xanto, in the collection of "MM. Seillière." These are probably the National Gallery of Art plate and the Metabus and camilla plate at Luton Hoo(Bedfordshire, England, home of the Wernher family collection). The owner was perhaps Baron Achille Seillière, but neither piece was included in his estate sale in Paris, 5-10 May 1890.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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