FRENCH OR ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY
Lot 103PROPERTY FROM THE MICHAEL HALL COLLECTIONS

FRENCH OR ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY

Portrait of Christ

Closed30 July 2020

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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'
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

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.).