The Justice of Brutus
Sculptor, Bolognese, 1494 - 1553

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
lead
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 5 x 6.8 cm (1 15/16 x 2 11/16 in.) gross weight: 44 gr
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Accession
1957.14.513
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1886
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 1:208, no. 299 (as Belli).
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 254-255, no. 379, pl. 108.
1951
National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 157.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 15, no. 35, fig. 381.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 112, no. 10.
1989
Donati 1989, 240, note.
Wikidata ID
Q63814995