Mask

early 16th century

Object PlaceVenice/Padua, Italy

Medium/TechniqueMetal; Gilded bronze

Dimensions20.32 cm (8 in.)

Credit LineOtis Norcross Fund

Accession number55.393

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsMetalwork

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceDr. Albert Figdor (b. 1843 - d. 1927), Vienna; 1928, collection sold by the heir of Albert Figdor to a consortium represented by the Darmstädter- und Nationalbank (taken over in 1932 by the Dresdner Bank); 1935, sold by the Dresdner Bank to the Prussian State and incorporated into the Staatliche Museen, Berlin [see note 1]; June 1-2, 1937, Staatliche Museen sale, Julius Böhler, Munich, lot 104, to Henri Heinbronner (dealer), Lucerne and Munich; June 19, 1937, sold by Heilbronner to Julius Böhler, Munich (stock no. 37207); March 17, 1938, sold for RM 350 by Böhler to Eugene L. Garbáty (b. 1880 - d. 1966), Berlin, New York, and East Norwalk, CT [see note 2]; 1955, sold by Garbáty to the MFA for $200. (Accession Date: June 9, 1955)

NOTES:
[1] On the sale of the Figdor collection, see Lynn Rother, "Zu gross für Einen. Zum An- und Verkauf grosser Sammlungen durch Konsortien am Beispiel Figdor," in Kunst sammeln, Kunst handeln: Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums in Wien, ed. E. Blimlinger and M. Mayer (Vienna, 2012), pp. 306-307. [2] Information about the acquisition and sale by Böhler is taken from the Julius Böhler Archive online (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), Karteikarte no. M_37-0207. Garbáty emigrated from Berlin to New York between 1938 and 1939, bringing much of his art collection with him.