The Death of Cyrus

Inscription

formerly in exergue, the final "I" superscript and a three-lobed vine leaf below, all evidently effaced by filing: FORTI TOMYRI (the might of Tomyris)

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory number 453(?) in black ink (unidentified collection).

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.

Bibliography

1897

Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 99, no. 238, as Paduan, The Vengeance of Tomyris.

1908

A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 70, repro., as Paduan, The Vengeance of Tomyris.

1931

Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 62, no. 83, pl. 26, as The Death of Cyrus by Pseudo-Melioli.

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: 144, as The Death of Cyrus by Pseudo-Melioli.

1965

Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 98, no. 348, fig. 291, as North Italian, The Death of Cyrus.

2011

Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:123, under Prototipo, M.3, as Venetian school, end of the fifteenth century.

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