Altar with a Female Bust

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David Edward Finley and Margaret Eustis Finley

  • Dimensions

    overall ("sight size" seen through frame): 8.35 × 9.3 cm (3 5/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
    framed: 10.3 × 11.3 cm (4 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
    gross weight (with frame): 262.8 gr (0.579 lb.)

  • Accession

    1984.73.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 13 April 1983, no. 99); (unknown dealer); (Ellin Mitchell, New York); purchased 6 November 1984 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin, 1989, brochure no. 8.

Bibliography

1989

  • Sturman, Shelley and Berrie, Barbara. "Technical Examination of Riccio Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):180-181, 186-187, repro.

2008

  • Lewis, Douglas. "Collectors of Renaissance Reliefs: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) and Baron Boissel de Monville (1763-1832)." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 137-138, 143 n. 42.

Inscriptions

on tablet above bust, in raised relief: S A C [1]

Wikidata ID

Q63860643

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