A Dancing Faun

model c. 1515, cast possibly mid-16th century

Giovanni Francesco Rustici

Sculptor, Florentine, 1474 - 1554

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G10

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

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Exhibition History

1937

  • Master Bronzes Selected from Museums and Collections in America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, 1937, no. 124, repro., as Attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio.

Bibliography

1909

  • Bode, Wilhelm von. "Maffeo Olivieri, ein Venezianischer Kleinbronzenkünstler der Renaissance." Jahrbuch der Königlich Preuszischen Kunstsammlungen 30 (1909): 81-88, fig. 5, as by Maffeo Olivieri.

1922

  • Bode, Wilhelm von. Die Italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance. Berlin, 1922: 66, fig. 76.

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: 137, repro. 23, as by Andrea Verrocchio.

1959

  • Camesasca, Ettore. "Piccoli Bronzi." Sguardi sul Mondo 5, no. 23 (March-April 1959): 34-41, repro. 39, as by Verrocchio.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 517.

1980

  • Bode, Wilhelm von. The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance. Edited and rev. James David Draper. Translated by William Grétor. New York, 1980: 80-81, 95, repro. plate LXXXII.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 81, no. 21.

1993

  • Meller, Peter. "Bronzetti del Caradosso?" In Shell, Janice and Liana Castelfranchi, eds. Giovanni Antonio Amadeo: Scultura e architettura del suo tempo. Milan, 1993: 543, fig. 17, as North Italian (Caradosso?).

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 112, repro.

2005

  • Mozzati, Tommaso. "Il fuoco e l'alchemista: Giovanfrancesco Rustici e la Practica del Bronzo." Proporzioni: annali della Fondazione Roberto Longhi VI (2005, published 2007):142-175, esp. 152-155, repros 235, 237, 239.

Wikidata ID

Q63809500

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