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Bust of a maenad wreathed with vine leaves (cameo)

Museum August Kestner Gemmen, Kameen und Glaspasten. Die Sammlung geschnittener Steine Angewandte Kunst / Design [1989.81]
Büste einer Bacchantin (Kameo) (Museum August Kestner CC BY-NC-SA)
Provenance/Rights: Museum August Kestner / Detlef Jürges (CC BY-NC-SA)
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Description

This cameo is the work of the versatile Roman artist Benedetto Pistrucci, who marked the piece with his name in capitals. Pistrucci had made a name for himself as a stone cutter, medallist, coin die cutter and sculptor. But his main passion was cameos.
Pistrucci varied the theme of the 'maenad' on cameos more frequently, for example on a specimen in the Staatliche Münzsammlung in Munich. - The originally unmounted cameo was mounted at Cartier in Paris in the 1920/30s. (AVS)


Former collection Harry Dittrich Hellebronth of Tiszabeö, Hanover

Inscription

Signatur: PISTRUCCI

Material/Technique

Agate (fivefold layered), enamel, gold / carved, framed

Measurements

Height: 6 cm, width: 4.9 cm

Literature

  • Hilschenz-Mlynek, Helga (1990): Kameen aus der Sammlung Hellebronth (Patrimonia, Heft 22). Berlin, 22-30 Nr. 3
Museum August Kestner

Object from: Museum August Kestner

Das Museum August Kestner ist benannt nach August Kestner (1777-1853). Das älteste städtische Museum in der Landeshauptstadt Hannover wird von einer...

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