A Horseman Attacked by Three Lions

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 7.02 x 6.95 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
gross weight: 118.84 gr (0.262 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.186

Artists / Makers

Gianfrancesco Enzola (artist) Parmese, active 1455/1478

Image Use

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Inscription

below angle of ground line, in parts indistinctly preserved: IOANNIS.FRANCISI.PARMENSIS . (Giovanni Francesco of Parma)

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory number 66 in red paint (Dreyfus).

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

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:64-65, no. 97, repro.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 22, fig. 11.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 52, no. 62, pl. 21.

1951: Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 144, repro. 67.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 23-24, no. 67, fig. 68.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 59, no. 9.