Emperor Charles V
1550/1600
Founder
West Building Main Floor, West Sculpture Hall
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 109 x 56 x 42.1 cm (42 15/16 x 22 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1952.5.104
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Imperial Palace, Vienna, from before 1874; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, from 1920;[1] sold February 1952 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] See affidavit dated 21 October 1953 from the Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (copy in NGA curatorial files). The sculpture "belonged from times immemorial to the imperial property and was adjudged to the complex of 'state property serving for purposes of the Court' ('hofärarischer Besitz') in 1874." It was placed on "permanent loan" to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1920, and an order from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education on 13 December 1937 transferred the sculpture permanently to the museum.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
El retrato del Renacimiento [Madrid title], Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian [London title], Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery, London, 2008-2009, no. 90, repro. (shown only in London).
Bibliography
1924
Planiscig, Leo. Die Bronzeplastiken, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wien. Vienna, 1928: 129, repro. abb. 223.
1956
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 242, no. 98, repro.
1957
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 32, fig. 15.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 430, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 161.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 142, repro.
Larsson, Lars Olaf. "Adrian de Fries V Praze." Umeni 16 (May 1968): 294.
1973
Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 90.
1975
Middeldorf, Ulrich. "On Some Portrait Busts Attributed to Leone Leoni." The Burlington Magazine 117 (February 1975): 84-90, repro. no. 29.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 73.
1982
Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. Bollingen series 35, no. 27. New York, 1982: fig. 86.
1993
Boogert, Bob van den, and Jacqueline Kerkhoff. Maria van Hongarije, 1505-1558: Koningin tussen keizers en kunstenaars. Zwolle, Netherlands, 1993: repro. 346, no. 245.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 133, repro.
1998
Coppel Aréizaga, Rosario. Catálogo de la escultura de época moderna: siglos XVI-XVIII. Madrid, 1998: 77.
2012
Schröder, Stephan F., ed. Leone & Pompeo Leoni: actas del congreso internacional = proceedings of the international symposium. Madrid, 2012: 52, 55 n. 26.
2014
Cupperi, Walter. “’You Could Have Cast Two Hundred of Them’ Multiple Portrait Busts and Reliefs at the Court of Charles V of Habsburg.” In Walter Cupperi, ed., Multiples in Pre-Modern Art. Zurich and Berlin, 2014:173-199, esp. 178 n. 12.
2019
Smith, Dylan, and Wendy Sepponen. " 'Comparable to the Very Tips of Their Spades': Technical and Political Connections among Serial Busts of Charels V." Facture: conservation, science, art history 4 (2019): 34-65, 35 unnumbered fig. (detail), figs. 1, details: figs. 9, 12, 13, 21
Inscriptions
on base, front: KAROLVS QINTVS / IMPERATOR SEMPER / AVGVSTVS
Wikidata ID
Q63810064