A Boar Hunt [obverse]

c. 1544

Giovanni Bernardi

Sculptor, Bolognese, 1494 - 1553

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina (thin casting); Blunt cast

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval): 962.5 x 1143.5 cm (378 15/16 x 450 3/16 in.) gross weight: 108 gr

  • Accession

    1957.14.525.a

Associated Artworks

Portrait of a Young Man in Oil [reverse]

Netherlandish 17th Century

1600

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

1897

  • Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 100, no. 243 (Plaquette no. 103).

1908

  • A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 48, repro.

1913

  • Bell, Charles Francis. “Plaquettes.” In Catalogue of a Collection of Italian Sculpture and Other Plastic Art of the Renaissance [at the] Burlington Fine Arts Club. Introduction by E.R.D. Maclagan. London, 1913: 135, no. 43, note.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 259, no. 391, 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: 14, no. 31, fig. 377.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 111, no. 2.

1989

  • Donati 1989, 120, note.

Wikidata ID

Q63815007

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