Pair of Stockings

1860 - 1880

  • Titles Pair of Stockings (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk
  • Dimensions Overall: each 22 1/2 x 8 x 5 in. (57.2 x 20.3 x 12.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Helen Benedict Byrd in honor of Martha Milner Benedict, 1986.1069.1-.2
  • Work Type stockings
  • Classification Costume

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Bust front in uniform with sash and medals.
Small cast-iron pendant medallion with the portrait bust of Emperor Alexander I Pavlovich (1777-1825; 1801 Emperor) in profile left, with small eye for hanging.
Oval black basalt intaglio with image of Cupid shaping his bow, set in brass mount with ring to hang as pendant
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of a Francesco Albani (1578-1660) facing right. Italian painter who was born in Bologna. The son of a silk merchant who studied as a fellow pupil with Guido Reni first under Calvaert in Bologna, and then under the Carracci in Rome. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in seventeenth century Italy and his works are mainly preserved in Rome, Paris and Bologna.