Lot 128: [ ITALIAN MEDALS ]

LEONE LEONI (c. 1509-1590) Charles V (1500-1558), Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-1556, uniface bronze medal, IMP CAES CAROLVS V AVG, laureate and bearded bust right wearing cuirass and mantle, with the Order of the Golden Fleece around neck and eagle on orb before, 85.9mm (Bernhart 176, this piece illustrated; Toderi/Vannel 77, this piece illustrated), pierced, the reverse with sharp intaglio impression and casting sprue, and inked collector's number '3313', a very fine contemporary cast with light brown patina

Provenance: Lanna collection, R. Lepke, Berlin, 16 May 1911, lot 625; Maurice Faure collection, Hamburger, Frankfurt, 22 September 1913, lot 495; Arthur Graf Enzenberg collection, Hess, Lucerne, March 1935, lot 166; Morton & Eden, 27 June 2006, lot 384. Toderi and Vannel suggest that the medal was probably made around 1554 when Leoni and his son Pompeo were working in Milan on the monumental sculpture of Charles V and the Fury (1551-1554), now in the Prado. The portrait was used later by Pompeo in three medals (Toderi/Vannel 117-119).