The Rape of Ganymede
1532 or after
Sculptor, Bolognese, 1494 - 1553
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina (rubbed on exposed surfaces)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 6.7 x 9 cm (2 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.) gross weight: 85 gr
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Accession
1957.14.516
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
Exhibition History
1992
The Genius of the Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1992, no. 110, repro.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018
Bibliography
1886
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 2:6-7, no. 328.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 256, no. 382, pl. 109.
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: 14, no. 33, fig. 382.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 112, no. 6.
1989
Donati 1989, 82-83, fig. 16.
1992
Michelangelo Sculpture. Exh. cat. Museé des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, 1992: no. ?.
Wikidata ID
Q63814998