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FRENCH OR ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY
Portrait of Christ
marble relief; in a later faux-marble wood frame; the reverse inscribed in pencil 'Jean M Goujon'
1412 in. (36.8 cm.) diam.
Exhibited
New York, Mobile, Evansville and Sacramento, American Bible Society, Mobile Museum of Art, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences and Crocker Museum of Art, Icons or Portraits? Images of Jesus and Mary from the Collection of Michael Hall, July 2002 - Jan. 2004, cat. no. 101.
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In the 2002 exhibition catalogue on images of Jesus and Mary from the collection of Michael Hall, the present medallion was compared by Dr Charles Avery to the work of French sculptor Germain Pilon (1528-1590; loc. cit.).

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