Portrait of Luigi Sommariva

Giovanni Beltrami Italian
 After a composition by Robert Jacques Louis Lefévre French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 554

This precious piece of pale yellow citrine is cut as an oval cabochon. Into the back, Giovanni Beltrami engraved a small version of Robert Lefèvre’s oil portrait of Luigi Sommariva, son of Count Giovanni Battista Sommariva, who commissioned this work and the cut rock crystal nearby.

Portrait of Luigi Sommariva, Giovanni Beltrami (Italian, Cremona 1770 or 1777–1854 Cremona), Engraved citrine in a gold suspension loop, Italian

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