Apollo, 16th century

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Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 6.91 × 3.71 cm (2 3/4 × 1 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 32.18 gr (0.071 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.378

Artists / Makers

Paduan 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

In upper left field, stamped owner’s mark with initials B. M. (for Baron Boissel de Monville: see Provenance); reverse bears former inventory numbers 278 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 254 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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: 2:45–46, no. 405 (in Ephrussi collection), as Paduan school, end of the fifteenth century.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 16, fig. 6, as Mirror, by Donatello.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 184, no. 254, pl. 78, as Paduan.

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: 146, as Paduan.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 93, no. 328, fig. 260, as Paduan.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 146 fig. 90.