Romulus and Remus
late 15th - early 16th century
Sculptor
Sculptor
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1957.14.144
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
1988
Da Pisanello alla nascita dei Musei Capitolini: L'Antico a Roma alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Musei Capitolini, Rome, 1988, no. 74.
1996
Pisanello: Le peintre aux sept vertus, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1996, no. 124, repro.
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. Vol.II, 20.
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, as The She-Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, Florentine 15th Century.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 375.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 32, no. 8.
Wikidata ID
Q63814715