Neptune
Sculptor, Bolognese, 1494 - 1553

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Light brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 7.9 x 6.5 cm (3 1/8 x 2 9/16 in.) gross weight: 59 gr
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Accession
1957.14.524
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
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 259, no. 390, pl. 110.
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. 36, fig. 379.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 111, no. 4.
1989
Donati 1989, 92-93, pl. 22.
Inscriptions
around left circumference: IOHANNES
Wikidata ID
Q63815005