Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010783About the Artwork
Recent research has revealed that this plaquette—long characterized as an Italian object from the 1500s—is indeed by the hand of a 19th-century silversmith working in Vienna. The subject of the Renaissance-style object also cannot be precisely identified, although it was long associated with the beheading of Saint Paul.
Provenance
Dr. Jacob Hirsch (New York, New York) Bank Leu (Zurich, Switzerland) Mrs. Chester D. Tripp, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970.
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983). Collecting Drawings in England. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1987-January 17, 1988).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hermann Samuel Ratzerdorfer (Austrian, 1815–1891)
- Date
- after 1866
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.6 x 5.5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp
- Accession no.
- 1970.122
Open-access museum record · AT-00010783
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