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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of A Little Boy
Desiderio da Settignano (artist)
Italian, c. 1429 - 1464
A Little Boy, 1455/1460
marble
overall: 26.3 x 24.7 x 15 cm (10 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.113
From the Tour: Florentine Sculpture of the 15th Century
Object 1 of 8
1937Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: repro. opposite p. 25
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 221, pl. XV, as Bust of a Little Boy.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 253, repro. 227, as Bust of a Little Boy.
1944Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 60-62, as Bust of a Boy.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 152, repro., as Bust of a Little Boy.
1949Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 175-176, note 20, repro. 77-79, as Bust of a Little Boy.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 152, as Bust of a Little Boy.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 135, repro., as Bust of a Little Boy.
1978King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 35-36, pl. 14, as Bust of a Little Boy [incorrectly identified at Samuel H. Kress Collection].
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 626, no. 971, repro., as Bust of a Little Boy.
1990Luchs, Alison. "Duveen, the Dreyfus Collection, and the Treatment of Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Examples from the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990):34-35, repro.
1994Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 73, repro.

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