Allegorical Scene, early 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 6.67 × 4.73 cm (2 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
gross weight: 67.16 gr (0.148 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.276

Artists / Makers

Ulocrino (artist) Paduan, active early 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right, almost completely erased by burnishing: VLOCRINO

Marks and Labels

At obverse bottom center, stamped collector’s mark BM (Boissel de Monville, sale, 1861). Reverse bears illegible traces of former inventory number(?) in black ink, which was partially removed in 1982 cleaning, but no record of former marks exists in NGA curatorial files.

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, 152.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 244.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 95, no. 6.

1998: Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 63.