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Title:Pair of Gauntlets for a Child
Armorer:Lucio Piccinino (Italian, Milan, active ca. 1575–90)
Date:ca. 1585
Geography:Milan
Culture:Italian, Milan
Medium:Steel, gold, silver
Dimensions:L. of each 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm); W. of each 4 1/2 in. (12.4 cm); D. of each 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Wt. of each 8 oz. (226.8 g)
Classification:Armor Parts-Gauntlets
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1919
Object Number:19.128.1–.2
Carlos de Aragón, 1st Duke of Terranova, Prince of Castelvetrano, and Governor of Milan, Milan (1585; his gift to Prince Philip of Spain, later King Philip III); Prince Philip, later King Philip III of Spain, Madrid (from 1585–before 1594; transfered to the Real Armería); Real Armería, Madrid (by 1594–before 1839); [Ancient Armour and Arms recently received from Spain sale, Christie & Manson, London, January 23–24, 1839, no. 261, sold, for 6 gns. 12 sh. 6p., to Pratt]; [Samuel Luke Pratt, London, 1839–45; Ancient Armour and Weapons comprising Several Knights’ Complete Cap-a-Pie Suite . . . including some very rare specimens of the periods of Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard III, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth, etc., Mr. Deacon, London, July 2–3, 1845, no. 181, “A pair of SPANISH GAUNTLETS, for a youth, elaborately Damasquined [sic] in gold and silver ornaments, and embossed in figures and scrolls, in high relief,” sold for 9 gns. 15 sh.]; Sir Jacob Henry Delaval Astley, 17th Lord Hastings, Melton Constable, Thetford, England (after 1845–d. 1871; sold by his estate to Davis); [Charles Davis, London, before 1900]; Sydney Ernest Kennedy, London (by 1900–18; The Important Collection of Objects of Art, Antiquities, Armour and Arms formed by S. E. Kennedy, Esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 18, 1918, no. 32, sold, for £441, to Whawell); [Samuel James Whawell, London, 1918–19; sold to MMA].
London. Burlington Fine Arts Club. "Exhibition of Chased and Embossed Steel and Iron Work of European Origin," 1900, case I, nos. 8–9 (lent by Mr. S. E. Kennedy).
Geneva. Musée Rath, Musées d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève. "Parures Triomphales. Le Maniérisme dans l'Art de l'Armure Italienne," March 20–July 20, 2003, no. 81g.
Christie's, London. A Catalogue of ... Ancient Armour and Arms: Recently Received from Spain ... Slabs of Florentine Mosaic Tapestry ... Saxon Porcelain and a Few Pictures. London: Christie's, London, January 23–24, 1839. no. 261.
Christie's, London. Henry Perronet Briggs, R.A. Collection. London: Christie's, London, April 25–27, 1844. lot 383.
Deacon's. Anonymous (S.L. Pratt?) Collection. London: Deacon's, July 2–3, 1845. lot 181.
Deacon's. S.L. Pratt Collection. London: Deacon's, April 20–23, 1847. lot 552.
Crooke y Navarrot, Juan Bautista Conde de Valencia de Don Juan, and Real Armería. Catálogo Histórico-Descriptivo de la Real Armería de Madrid. Madrid: Fototipias de Hauser y Menet, 1898. p. 122, no. B. 4, pl. XVII.
Gardner, John Starkie. Exhibition of Chased and Embossed Steel and Iron Work of European Origin. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1900. case I, nos. 8–9, p. 46.
Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of the Important Collection of Objects of Art, Antiquities, Armour and Arms Formed by S.E. Kennedy, Esq.. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, March 18–22, 1918. no. 32, ill. opp. p. 21.
Grancsay, Stephen V. "Lucio Piccinino: Master Armorer of the Renaissance." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin pp. 226–270, figs. 13–16, 19.
Alcon, Maria Teresa Ruiz. "Armaduras Infantiles en el Palacio de Oriente." Reales Sitios (1966), pp. 40–48, fig. B.5.
Grancsay, Stephen V., and Stuart W. Pyhrr. Arms & Armor: Essays by Stephen V. Grancsay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 1920–1964. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. pp. 519–536; fig. 115.14.
Godoy, José-A., and Silvio Leydi. Parures Triomphales: Le Maniérisme dans l'Art de l'Armure Italienne. Milan: 5 Continents, 2003. cat. no. 81g, pp. 311, 484–86.
La Rocca, Donald J. How to Read European Armor. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. pp. 59–63, fig. 68.
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