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Leonello d'Este

(Italian, about 1395–1455)
about 1440–50
Object PlaceItaly
Medium/TechniqueMetal; cast bronze (90% copper, 5% zinc, 4% tin)
DimensionsDiameter and weight: 70 mm (2 3/4 in.)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession number57.174
On View
On view
ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "MARCHIO ESTENSIS LEONELLVS" [words separated by olive branches between]. Reverse: Inscribed at edge "OPVS·PISANI·PICTORIS".
Provenance1957, sold by Mark M. Salton-Schlessinger (b. 1914 - d. 2005), New York, to the MFA for $1,800. (Accession date: March 14, 1957)
Gianfrancesco Gonzaga I
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
1439–44 or later cast
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1441
Alfonso V
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
1449
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1441 or later
Group shot: 87.69, 23.204
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
probably reproduction of original 15th century
Leonello d'Este
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1443
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1448–50
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1440–50
Niccolò Piccinino
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
about 1441
Leonello d'Este
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello)
after 1444
Pierre Jeannin
Guillaume Dupré
1600–25