A Child on a Lion

Gianfrancesco Enzola

Artist, Parmese, active 1455/1478

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 5.01 cm (2 in.)
    gross weight: 39.78 gr (0.088 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.184

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

1886

  • Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:62, no. 94.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 51, no. 60, pl. 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: 144.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 23, no. 65, fig. 63.

Inscriptions

around top circumference: .SOLA.VIRTVS.OMI NEM.FELICITAT. (Only virtue can make men happy); around exergue border: .IO.FR.PARMENSIS. (Gian Francesco of Parma)

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 64 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 60 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814988

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