A Bacchante
late 15th or early 16th century
Sculptor, North Italian, possibly Mantuan, late 15th or early 16th century
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina over light bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 11.01 x 8.48 cm (4 5/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
gross weight: 231.95 gr (0.511 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.129
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
1886
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:16, no. 29, note, as after the Antique, end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 27, pl. 16, fig. 3, as by Donatello.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 7, no. 5, pl. 3, as by Donatello.
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: 141, as Attributed to Donatello.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 37–38, no. 116, fig. 144, as Attributed to Master IO.F.F.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 96, no. 12, as Mantuan.
Wikidata ID
Q63809869