Two Soldiers Fighting with a Horseman
c. 1468
Artist, Parmese, active 1455/1478
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Light brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 6.28 cm (2 1/2 in.)
gross weight: 72.4 gr (0.16 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.185
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
1856
Possibly The Soulages Collection, Museum of Ornamental Art, Marlborough House, London, 1856, no. 517.
Bibliography
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 22, fig. 12.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 51, no. 61, 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: 24, no. 68, fig. 64.
2011
Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:253, under Variante A, M.3.
Inscriptions
around top circumference: .MCCCCLXVIII.IHOANNIS.FRANCISI.PARMESIS.OPVS. (1468. The work of Giovanni Francesco of Parma)
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory number 65 in red paint (Dreyfus).
Wikidata ID
Q63814989