The Triumph of Cupid
1472/1474
Sculptor, Sienese, 1439 - 1501
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 7.72 cm (3 1/16 in.)
gross weight: 81.96 gr (0.181 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.135
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
2000
The Gualenghi-d'Este Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2000, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 47, as North Italian, mid- to late fifteenth century..
Bibliography
1886
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:46, no. 78, as by Donatello and his school.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): repro. pl 16, fig. 5, as by Donatello and his studio.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 16, no. 11, pl. 8, as by Donatello and his school.
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: 95, no. 338, fig. 269, as Venetian, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory number 53 in red paint (Dreyfus) and earlier-style NGA accession number in different red paint.
Wikidata ID
Q63809434