Fortuna, second half 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 10

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 13.4 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm (5 1/4 x 2 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.23

Artists / Makers

Venetian 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Exhibition History

2000: Fortune: "All Is But Fortune", The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2000, no. 76.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 26, no 14, pl. 13 (as Venus).

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: 140, as Venus by Italian 16th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 518.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 141.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 229, repro.