The Battle of Cannae [obverse], c. 1503

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Yellowish patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 5.35 cm (2 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 46.19 gr (0.102 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.273.a

Artists / Makers

Master of Coriolanus (artist) Italian, active c. 1500

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in sky: CONSALVI / AGIDARI [for "Agilari"] / VICTORIA (The victory of Gonzalo de Aguilar...); in exergue: DE GALLIS / AD CANNAS (...over the French at Cannae)

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: 118, no. 149, pl. 50, fig. 149.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 93.

1987: Lewis, Douglas. "The Medallic Oeuvre of 'Moderno': His Development at Mantua in the Circle of 'Antico.'" Studies in the History of Art 21 (1987):83-86, 89, 95, repro.

1989: Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 124, repro.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 40, 41 fig. 17, 220.