This helmet is very close in design and workmanship to a breastplate in the Met's collection signed by Giovan Paolo Negroli (14.25.1855) and therefore can be attributed to him with confidence.
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Title:Close Helmet
Armorer:Attributed to Giovan Paolo Negroli (Italian, Milan ca. 1513–1569)
Date:ca. 1540–45
Geography:Milan
Culture:Italian, Milan
Medium:Steel, copper alloy, gold
Dimensions:H. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm); W. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm); D. 15 in. (38.1 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 8 oz. (3068 g)
Classification:Helmets
Credit Line:Purchase, Rogers Fund and George D. Pratt Gift, 1926
Accession Number:26.53
Honoré d'Albert, 10th Duc de Luynes, Dampierre-en-Yvelines, France (until 1911; sold to Bachereau); [Louis Bachereau, Paris, 1911–25; sold for £4000 to Whawell]; [Samuel James Whawell, London, 1925–26, sold to MMA].
Paris. Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif. "Notice Sommaire des Objets d'Art Exposés dans le Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif, le 23 Avril 1874, au Profit des Alsaciens-Lorrains en Algérie," April 23, 1874.
Paris. Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif. "Notice Sommaire des Objets d'Art exposées dans le Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif," April 23, 1874–1874, no. 18.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries," October 8, 1998–January 17, 1999, no. 46.
Société de Protection des Alsaciens et Lorrains Demeurés Français. Notice Sommaire Des Objets D'art: Exposés Dans Le Palais De La Présidence Du Corps Législatif, Le 23 Avr. 1874, Au Profit Des Alsaciens-Lorrains En Algérie. Paris: J. Glaye, 1874. p. 107, no. 18.
Guérinet, Armand. Le Château Historique de Dampierre: Reproductions en Phototypie; Intérieurs des Appartements de Réception, Détails de Sculpture Ornementale, Mobilier Historique, Peintures, Statues, Cheminées, Bronzes d'Art, etc., etc.. Paris: Armand Guérinet, 1905. pl. 9.
Dean, Bashford. "Embossed Milanese Casque by Paulus de Negroli." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 21, no. 1 pp. 138–141.
Dean, Bashford, and Robert T. Nichol. Handbook of Arms and Armor : European and Oriental, edited by Stephen V. Grancsay. 4th ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1930. p. 133, fig. 81.
Thomas, Bruno, and Ortwin Gamber. "L'Arte Milanese dell'Armatura." Storia di Milano XI p. 795.
Scalini, Mario. Armature All'eroica Dei Negroli. Specchio del Bargelo, Vol. 38. Firenze: Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1987. p. 33, fig. 23.
Pyhrr, Stuart W. "S. J. Whawell and the Art Market." The Eleventh Park Lane Arms Fair: Sunday 6th February 1994: the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London W1: 10.30 AM–6.00 PM pp. 18, 20–21.
Pyhrr, Stuart W., José-A. Godoy, and Silvio Leydi. Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. pp. 235–39, no. 46, ill.
Williams, Alan R. "The Steel of the Negroli." Metropolitan Museum Journal (1999), pp. 114–115, figs. 37–41.
Williams, Alan. The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period. History of Warfare, Vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2002. p. 255.
Pyhrr, Stuart W. "Of Arms and Men: Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan, 1912–2012." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 2012), pp. 24, 47, fig. 34.
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