Cassone with Reliefs of Caesar, the Slaying of Niobe's Sons (One of a Pair)

Italian, Third Quarter of the Sixteenth Century

Datelate 16th century

MediumWalnut on pine

Dimensions29 1/4 x 74 1/2 in. (74.3 x 189.2 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.5.117

Collection History

Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Furniture in The Frick Collection: Italian and French Renaissance, French 18th and 19th Centuries (Pt. I). Volume V. New York: The Frick Collection, 1992.

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