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attributed to Benvenuto CELLINI | Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (obverse); Pegasus on the fountain Hippocrene (reverse)
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attributed to Benvenuto CELLINI | Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (obverse); Pegasus on the fountain Hippocrene (reverse)
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attributed to Benvenuto CELLINI
Italy 1500 – 1571
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Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo (obverse);
Pegasus on the fountain Hippocrene (reverse) c.1539
Metalwork
bronze
diameter 5.5 cm (diameter)
not signed, not dated, title obverse relief, "PETRI BEMBI CAR"
Purchased 1988
NGA 1988.1955
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Provenance
  • sold at auction, Sotheby's London, 23 May 1988, lot 75;

  • when bought by Alain Moatti, Paris;

  • from whom bought by the Australian National Gallery, June 1988
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