Saint Sebastian, 15th century

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Medium

gilded bronze

Dimensions

overall (without added ring, silhouetted contour): 7.42 x 3.43 cm (2 15/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
overall (height with added ring): 7.95 cm (3 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 55.16 gr (0.122 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.403

Artists / Makers

North Italian 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory number 421 in black paint (possibly collection number, though not auction sale number of Baron Boissel de Monville).

Provenance

Stefano Bardini, Florence; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26-30 May 1902, 1st day, no. 5, as A Saint in Prayer by School of Donatello).[1] 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.

[1] NGA 1957.14.403 is perhaps identical with the relief in the Bardini sale, according to John Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars, London, 1965: 102, no. 368.

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: 202, no. 279, pl. 85, as North Italian, fifteenth century, Saint Sebastian.

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: 147, as North Italian, fifteenth century, Saint Sebastian.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 102, no. 368, fig. 313, as Italian, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

2008: Lewis, Douglas. "Collectors of Renaissance Reliefs: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) and Baron Boissel de Monville (1763-1832)." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 137-139, figs. 13, 15-16.