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- Artist
- Hans Reinhart (the Elder)
(German, ca. 1510 - 1581) - Title
- Johann Friedrich (1503-1554), Elector of Saxony 1532-1547
- Date
- designed 1535; borderline between contemporaneous and early cast
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- diam: 65 mm overall
- Credit
- Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
- Accession No.
- 1977.1470
- Classification
- Medals
- Geography
- Germany
Related
After 1947, sold by Schulman b.v. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) to Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 1976, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1 January 1982, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 185
- Chazen Museum of Art. "European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 118-120, 165, cat. no. 45
- Hill, George Francis and Graham Pollard. "Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art." London: Phaidon Press, for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1967. no. 605
- Pollard, John Graham with Eleonora Luciano and Maria Pollard. "Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Systemic Catalogue." Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2007. no. 741
- Habich, Georg. "Die deutschen Schaumünzen des XVI. Jahrhunderts." 5 vol. Munich: Bruckmann, 1929-1934. vol II, part 1: no. 1935
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