The Virgin and Child
Artist, Florentine, 1427 - 1479
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Black patina revealing light bronze surface in rubbed areas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (silhouetted contour): 18.9 x 14.1 cm (7 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.) gross weight: 641 gr
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Accession
1957.14.138
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. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. Vol.II, 14.
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: 142, repro. 59, as Madonna and Child.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 234.
Wikidata ID
Q63809214