Uncommonly Choice Medal of Gianfrancesco Trivulzio

Perhaps Pier Paolo Galeotti (1520-1584). Portrait Medal of Gianfrancesco Trivulzio (1504-73).

59.7 x 59.5 mm. 71.3 grains. Armand II 302, 13; Kress 360a; Pollard 432. Draped and cuirassed bust right, IO FRAN TRI MAR VIG CO MVSO AC VAL REN ET STOSA D / Fortuna rides a dolphin through stormy seas and drowning people, FVI SVM ET ERO. Medal turn. Neatly holed at 12 o'clock. Beautiful and even medium tan. An exceptionally fine and detailed early cast with an impressive high relief portrait. Fields are smoothed but show no significant vestiges of chasing, edges filed to roundness. AET 39 bold on portrait truncation. A small attempted piercing is seen left of the present hole. Crisply rendered and well preserved, executed about 1543. Though this medal has been attributed to a follower of Leoni (or even Leoni himself), the National Gallery of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art both identify the artist as Galeotti. There will undoubtedly be further discussion on this attribution, as a casual study finds more stylistic differences with the Galeotti medal of Taverna than one might find similarities.

From the Santini Collection of Renaissance Medals. Earlier from the Jonathan H. Kagan Collection of Renaissance Medals.

Estimate: $2500.00 - $3500.00