Scipio Africanus

early 16th century

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.48 x 5.92 cm (2 15/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
    gross weight: 99.15 gr (0.219 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.166

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

1980

  • Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1980-1981, no. 48, repro.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 40, no. 42, pl. 17.

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: 155.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 76-77, no. 262, fig, 54.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 93, no. 14.

Inscriptions

around right circumference: SCIP[IO] AF[RICANUS] (Scipio [conqueror] of Africa)

Markings

Reverse formerly bore inventory number 42 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.

Wikidata ID

Q63814736

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