Julius Caesar

early 16th century

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Light brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 4.11 cm (1 5/8 in.)
    gross weight: 31.98 gr (0.071 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.176

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: 45, no. 52, pl. 18, as Florentine fifteenth century.

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: 143, as Florentine 15th Century.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 78, no. 270, fig. 58, as fifteenth or sixteenth century.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 27-28, no. 8, as early sixteenth century.

1997

  • Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 51.

2008

  • Kokole, Stanko. "The Silver Shrine of Saint Simeon in Zadar: Collecting Ancient Coins and Casts after the Antique in Fifteenth-Century Dalmatia." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 112, 116 fig. 11, 122 n. 13, as early sixteenth century.

2011

  • Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:49, under Prototipo, M.17, as Mantuan, c. 1470.

Inscriptions

around right circumference: *.DIVI.IVLI. (star; of the divine Julius); on the clasp of the sitter's cloak: SP / QR [for SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS] (the senate and the Roman people)

Markings

Reverse formerly bore previous inventory number 52 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); painted numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.

Wikidata ID

Q63814747

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