Un important relief italien pour Nüremberg
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg has acquired and publicly unveiled a previously unknown masterpiece: a large silver relief depicting the Lamentation of Christ, created in the workshop of Luigi Valadier in 1786. The work, purchased from a private collector in 2024 with support from several foundations, is now on temporary display and will later join the museum's permanent collection.
This acquisition is significant as it represents a major addition to the study of late 18th-century Roman goldsmithing, attributed with certainty to Valadier's renowned workshop through a surviving preparatory drawing. The relief's exceptional state of preservation, its virtuosic silverwork, and its accompanying original case offer a rare, complete artifact for scholarly examination, with a dedicated publication planned for 2027 to detail its iconography, history, and technique.