Lid of a Box

c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Very dark brown lacquer over red-brown bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.45 x 21.5 x 2.56 cm (4 7/8 x 8 7/16 x 1 in.)
    overall (central panel, to inside edge of border fillet): 6.8 × 15.9 cm (2 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
    gross weight: 1096.8 gr (2.418 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.65

Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 74, no. 59, pl. 37, as Paduan, c. 1500.

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, as Paduan, c. 1500.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 133, no. 490, fig. 477, as by Severo da Ravenna.

1992

  • Radcliffe, Anthony, Malcolm Baker, and Michael Maek-Gérard. Renaissance and Later Sculpture with Works of Art in Bronze. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Edited by Irene Martin. London, 1992: 194, no. 6, as Romano-Mantuan.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 169, repro.

2006

  • Lewis, Douglas. "Mantova e la produzione di placchette nel XV secolo." In Rossi, Francesco, ed. Placchette e rilievi di bronzo nell'età del Mantegna. Exh. cat. Museo della Città di Palazzo San Sebastiano, Mantua, 2006: 11.

2011

  • Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:157, under Storia critica, 158 fig. d.

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory numbers D109 in red paint (Dreyfus) and C59 (Ricci 1931), as well as round and rectangular paper labels, imprinted with stamps of DOUANES / FRANÇAISES / EXPOSITIONS / PARIS (French Customs, Exhibitions, Paris), from Duveen Brothers export of the object, c. 1930 (see Provenance).

Wikidata ID

Q63810007

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