The Virgin and Child

Antonio Rossellino

Artist, Florentine, 1427 - 1479

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Black patina revealing light bronze surface in rubbed areas

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (silhouetted contour): 18.9 x 14.1 cm (7 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.) gross weight: 641 gr

  • 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


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