Door Knocker

1475/1525

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.5 x 16 cm (8 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.119

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

Exhibition History

1955

  • Fish Forms in Art, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1955, no. 21.

1980

  • Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1980-1981, no. 60, repro.

1983

  • Raphael and the Ruins of Rome: The Poetic Dimension, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1983-1984, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 134, no. 116, pl 68.

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: 140, repro. 47, as Door knocker ornamented with two cornucopias and two interlaced dolphins by Italian (Venetian?) 16th Century.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 512.

1971

  • Mariacher, Giovanni. Bronzetti veneti del rinascimento. Vicenza, 1971: 37-38 no. 140, repro., as Venetian, mid-sixteenth century.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 167, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63810090

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