Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 77.5
Date:
1855
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 74.
Summary:
Historical painting depicting an interior scene in sixteenth century Florence, where a collector, dressed in Renaissance attire, is seated on a stool by a desk, a coin held up in his right hand as he examine it. A small door on the front of his elaborately carved wooden desk is open, revealing a vase and a small box. On top of the desk there is a small chest and an open book. To the left is a tapestry drape pulled to one side, and to the right is a portion of a stone fireplace mantle carved with a face.
