This closely resembles two helmets by Filippo and Francesco Negroli in Madrid and Paris. Later over-cleaning removed the original dark surface and damascened decoration of our burgonet.
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Title:Burgonet after Filippo Negroli
Date:about 1545–50
Geography:Milan
Culture:Italian, Milan
Medium:Steel
Dimensions:H. 10 9/16 in. (26.8 cm); W. 9 in. (22.9 cm); D. 14 in. (35.6 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 10 oz. (1651 g)
Classification:Helmets
Credit Line:Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1949
Accession Number:49.163.3
Ex. coll.: John Walker Baily; Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson, Florence; Rutherford Stuyvesant, Allamuchy, New Jersey.
London. Ironmonger's Hall. "No title entered 16," May, 1861.
London. South Kensington Museum. "Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance and More Recent Periods," June, 1862, no. 4688.
London. New Gallery. "Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor," 1890–April 6, 1890, no. 696.
London. South Kensington Museum. "Exhibition of the de Cosson Collection," 1891–93 (no cat.).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor," February 6–April 16, 1911, no. 61.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of European Arms and Armor," August 3–September 27, 1931, no. 81.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries," October 8, 1998–January 17, 1999, no. 37.
Victoria and Albert Museum. Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediæval, Renaissance, and More Periods, edited by Sir John Charles Robinson. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1862. cat. no. 4688.
British Archaeological Association. "Proceedings of the Association." In The Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Vol. 24. London: British Archaeological Association, 1868. p. 289.
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London ... May, 1881. Vol. 1. London: Harrison & Sons, 1869. p. 181.
British Archaeological Association. "Obituary for John Walker Baily." In The Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Vol. 30. London: British Archaeological Association, 1874. pp. 349–351.
Cosson, Charles Alexander, and William Burges. "Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail." The Archaeological Journal 37 pl. VII, fig. 87, cat. no. 86.
Cosson, Charles Alexander. "Armour and Arms at the Tudor Exhibition." The Magazine of Art 13 p. 321, 324.
New Gallery. Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor: The New Gallery, Regent Street. London: The Gallery, 1890. no. 696.
Christie, Manson & Woods. Armour and Arms, or, Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Armour and Arms Formed by That Well-Known Connoisseur, The Baron de Cosson, F.S.A., Which Has Been On Loan to the South Kensington Museum for the Last Two Years. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 2–3, 1893. p. 16, cat. no. 109.
Dean, Bashford, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February the Sixth to April the Sixteenth. New York: Gilliss Press, 1911. cat. no. 61, pl. XXX.
Dean, Bashford. The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherford Stuyvesant, 1843–1909. New York: privately printed, 1914. p. 31, no. 30, pl. XVI.
Laking, Guy Francis, Charles A. de Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. IV. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920–1922. p. 142, fig. 1228.
Grancsay, Stephen V. Loan Exhibition of European Arms and Armor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 3 to September 27, 1931. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931. pp. 26–27, no. 81
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Beverly Hale, Vincent D. Andrus, Charles K. Wilkinson, Stephen V. Grancsay, Polaire Weissman, S. A. Callisen, Ambrose Lansing, Alan Priest, Christine Alexander, Walter Hauser, Josephine L. Allen, James J. Rorimer, Emanuel Winternitz, Benjamin Knotts, Maurice S. Dimand, Theodore Rousseau Jr., A. Hyatt Mayor, Marshall Davidson, Preston Remington, Murray Pease, and Floyd D. Rodgers. "Reports of the Departments." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Incorporating the Eightieth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year 1949 (Summer, 1950), p. 17.
Thomas, Bruno, and Ortwin Gamber. "L'Arte Milanese dell'Armatura." Storia di Milano XI p. 769.
Boccia, Lionello G., and Eduardo T. Coelho. L'Arte dell'Armatura in Italia. Milan: Bramante Editrice, 1967. p. 333, no. 273.
Pyhrr, Stuart W., José-A. Godoy, and Silvio Leydi. Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. pp. 191–193, no. 37, ill.
Williams, Alan R. "The Steel of the Negroli." Metropolitan Museum Journal (1999), p. 115, figs. 42–43.
Williams, Alan. The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period. History of Warfare, Vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2002. p. 257.
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