Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.1 cm (8 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2022.181.65
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Von Frey, Paris);[1] Dr. Johannes Jantzen [1887-1972], Bad Homburg; private collection, Bremen; Galerie Neuse, Bremen; Robert H. Smith [1928-2009], Arlington, VA; by inheritance to his wife Clarice R. Smith [1933-2021], Arlington, VA; the Clarice R. Smith Revocable Trust; gift 2022 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from Art of the Renaissance bronze, 1500-1650 (see bibliography). Von Frey likely refers to Alexander von Frey [1882-1951], an art dealer active in Swizterland and Paris before moving to New York in.1948. He had a collection of small European Renaissance bronzes that was sold at Sotheby's London on 8 December 1988 (this work was not included in the sale). According to the catalogue, his collection was mostly complete by 1929.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2007
Cristanetti, Simona, et al. Recent Acquisitions Made to the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Bronzes. London, 2007: 54-57, 60, repro. no. 65.
2015
Schmidt, Eike D., et al. Bronze, Boxwood, and Ivory in the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Sculpture. London, 2015: 5.