Allegorical Scene [obverse]

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 14

Medium

bronze//Medium red-brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 5.35 cm (2 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 77.23 gr (0.17 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.352.a

Artists / Makers

Master I.S.A. (artist) Italian, active first half 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

in exergue: [flower] VIRTVS.

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, 228.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 226.

2002: Pfisterer, Ulrich. Donatello und die Entdeckung der Stile 1430-1445. Munich, 2002: 165 fig. 34 and n.151.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 128, fig. 78.