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Giovanni Paolo Negroli: Helmet (burgonet) in the Form of a Dolphin Mask   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Giovanni Paolo Negroli  (fl. 1525–1565)  wikidata:Q16560114
 
Alternative names
Gian Paolo Negroli, Giovan Paolo Negroli
Description Italian armourer
Date of birth/death 1513 Edit this at Wikidata 1569 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Milan Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between 1525 and 1565
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1565-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q16560114
Title
Helmet (burgonet) in the Form of a Dolphin Mask
Date between 1540 and 1545
date QS:P571,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1545-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium iron
medium QS:P186,Q677
or steel
medium QS:P186,Q11427
Dimensions height: 29.5 cm (11.6 in); width: 20.9 cm (8.2 in); depth: 31.6 cm (12.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,29.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.9U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,31.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, ground floor, room 19
Accession number
1942.9.355
Object history by 1933
date QS:P,+1933-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1933-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: George Robins, London (?)
by 1862
date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet (1795-1867) (as Paolo di Negroli)

1867: inherited by Sir Robert Hay, 8th Baronet (1825-1885) (?)
1885: inherited by Sir John Adam Hay, 9th Baronet (1854-1895) (?)
by 1909-1911: Sir Duncan Edwyn Hay, 10th Baronet (1882-1965)

from 1909 until 1911
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
by 26 March 1913
date QS:P,+1913-03-26T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1913-03-26T00:00:00Z/11
: Samuel J. Whawell, Eastbourne
by 1916
date QS:P,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Partridge
after 12 July 1916
date QS:P,+1916-07-12T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1916-07-12T00:00:00Z/11
: purchased by Joseph E. Widener (1871-1943), Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania (as Paolo di Negroli, mid-sixteenth century)

1923: lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1942: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition history

Catalogue of a most splendid and instructive Collection of antient armour [...] (?), Oplotheca, London, 1816, cat. no.  90, p. 12-13, as ‘This superb Helmet said to have belonged to Francis I. is of the very finest style of workmanship.–It appears to be the design of Lionardo Da Vinci, and the execution of Benvenuto Celini,–the front represents a chimera, or sort of dolphin's head, the eyes of which are finely executed, as is also the beautiful arabesque ornaments that enrich the head and the crest.–It must be allowed to be a piece of work worthy the artists who performed it, and the Monarch for whom it was wrought.’.
Catalogue of a Splendid Collection of Ancient Armour [...], Gothic Hall, Pall Mall, London, 1818, cat. no.  108.
Catalogue of a Splendid Collection of Military Antiquities [...], Gothic Hall, Pall Mall, London, 1819, cat. no.  114.
Catalogue of a Splendid Collection of Military Antiquities [...], Gothic Hall, Pall Mall, London, 1820, cat. no.  114.

Descriptive Catalogue of a Very Costly and Superb Collection of Military Antiquities [...] (?), Royal Armoury, Haymarket, London, [circa 1821
date QS:P,+1821-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
], cat. no.  50.

Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and More Recent Periods on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, South Kensington Museum, London, June 1862, cat. no.  4685, p. 365.
Helmets. A Loan Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, July 1924–15 September 1924 (?), no catalogue.
Loan Exhibition of European Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 3 August 1931–27 September 1931, cat. no.  82, p. 27, with image in black and white, as Burganet, Milanese, 1540 [...]. Lent by Joseph E. Widener..
The Sforza Court. Milan and the Renaissance, 1450-1535, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, 27 October 1988–18 December 1988, University Art Museum, The University of California, Berkeley, 18 January 1989–12 March 1989, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, 16 April 1989–4 June 1989, ISBN 0935213139, cat. no.  80, p. 17, 25, image 24.

Fanciful Flourishes. Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 30 March 1994–21 August 1994, brochure, cat. no.  23, with image in black and white, as Gian Paolo Negroli, Helmet in the Form of a Grotesque Mask, circa 1549
date QS:P,+1549-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, iron
medium QS:P186,Q677
.
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance. Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 8 October 1998–17 January 1999, ISBN 0-87099-872-2, cat. no.  44, p. 230-232, as Giovan Paolo Negroli, Burgonet, circa 1540-1545, steel and gold.
References National Gallery of Art online catalogue, as Helmet (burgonet) in the Form of a Dolphin Mask, 1540/1545, iron or steel, repoussé, embossed, and chiseled.
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