Orpheus Playing to the Animals

late 15th - early 16th century

Moderno

Sculptor, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 10.68 cm (4 3/16 in.)
    gross weight: 176.71 gr (0.39 lb.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.248

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

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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: no. 157.

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. 18, repro.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 110, no. 34.

Markings

Reverse formerly bore previous inventory numbers 390 in black ink, 95 in black paint, and 4 in red paint (all unidentified collections); P. 16 (for Plaquette no. 16) in black ink (Bode/Thieme 1897/1906); and 18 in white paint (Hainauer/Duveen 1908); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.

Wikidata ID

Q63809226

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