The Fall of Phaeton, 1533 or after

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall (oval): 9 x 6.8 cm (3 9/16 x 2 11/16 in.) gross weight: 116 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.515

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Bernardi (sculptor) Bolognese, 1494 - 1553

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in exergue: IOANEI

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.

Exhibition History

1992: The Genius of the Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1992, no. 114, repro.

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018, no. 21

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 2:6, no. 327.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 28, fig. 10.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 255, no. 381, pl. 108.

1951: National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 157.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 14, no. 32, fig. 378.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 112, no. 8, repro.

1989: Donati 1989, 84, text and note.

2010: Gennaioli, Riccardo, ed. Pregio e bellezza: cammei e intagli dei Medici. Exh. cat. Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence. Livorno, 2010: 104, no. 19.