The Entombment

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 14

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 7.6 × 7.82 cm (3 × 3 1/16 in.)
gross weight: 284.21 gr (0.627 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.253

Artists / Makers

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (sculptor) Paduan, 1470 - 1532

Image Use

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Inscription

on reverse, oriented laterally, with stem parallel to bottom edge, cast in relief: R

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

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

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. Vol.II, 129.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 205.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 88, no. 1.

1989: Sturman, Shelley and Berrie, Barbara. "Technical Examination of Riccio Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):178-180, 186, repro.

2003: Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:386.