Fortune Bestowing Fame

Attributed to Cristoforo di Geremia

Associated Names
Cristoforo di Geremia

Sculptor, Roman, active 1456 - 1476

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 8.83 cm (3 1/2 in.)
    gross weight: 238.06 gr (0.525 lb.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.180


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

1908

  • Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 27, pl. 22, fig. 7.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 48, no. 56, pl. 19.

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, repro. 66, as Allegorical figure by Cristoforo di Geremia.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 20, no. 55, fig. 20.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 30, no. 1.

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 38 (incised: unidentified collection) as well as 61 in red paint (Dreyfus collection) and presumably 56 in yellow paint (nearly illegible; Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814941

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