Bust of a Warrior

1850/1870

Anonymous Artist

Sculptor

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    terracotta

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 62.3 x 55 x 25.9 cm (24 1/2 x 21 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.4.74

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris. Baron Arthur de Schickler [1828-1919], Paris, and Martinvast, Normandy (near Cherbourg); by inheritance to his daughter, Marguerite, Comtesse Hubert de Pourtalès [1870-1956], Paris, and Martinvast, Normandy. Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York by 1926;[1] probably his estate; sold (Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York); purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.
[1] See W.R.Valentiner, The Clarence H. Mackay Collection, 1926, n.13. After his death in 1938, most of the Mackay collection was dispersed through the firm of Jacques Seligmann et Cie. It is unclear if this sculpture was among those objects or if Duveen bought directly from Mackay before his death. See Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, boxes 238-239 (copies NGA curatorial files).

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Bibliography

1926

  • Valentiner, W.R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: 6, 9, no. 13, repro.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 229-230, no. A-49, as by Antonio Pollaiuolo.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 232, as by Antonio Pollaiuolo.

1943

  • Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 296 fig. 11 (detail), 297, as by Antonio Pollaiuolo.

1944

  • Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 133-135, as Virginio Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo.

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 10, repro., as by Antonio Pollaiulo.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 185, repro., as by Antonio Pollaiuolo.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 33.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 176, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63809597

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