The Flagellation, c. 1500

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Medium

bronze, partially gilded

Dimensions

overall (from finial to base): 15.3 x 8.5 cm (6 x 3 3/8 in.) gross weight: 228 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.428

Artists / Makers

North Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

stamped under foot: DE.ZANTA.PRAZEDE.VIRZINE

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, 304.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 79, no. 274, fig. 28.

1998: Vannel, Fiorenza, and Giuseppe Toderi. Medaglie e placchette del Museo Bardini di Firenze. Florence, 1998: 154.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:86, under Prototipo, M.1, fig. a, as school of Lorenzo Ghiberti (?).