Pendant with Intaglio Portrait of Anna of Austria in Enameled Frame
French (?)
19th century (?)
- Medium
- Intaglio: rock crystal Frame: enamel, glass, gold, and pearl
- Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Dimensions
- 9.6 × 6.4 × 1.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This portrait had been thought to date about 1570, when Anna Maria of Austria married King Phillip II of Spain. It is likely, however, this refined intaglio image was carved after a contemporary painting but in the nineteenth century. The frame executed in a delicate process known as émail en résille sur verre emulated a seventeenth-century technique but was certainly done in the nineteenth century.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
