The Virgin and Child with Two Angels

Gianfrancesco Enzola

Artist, Parmese, active 1455/1478

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (pointed oval): 7.88 x 4.5 cm (3 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
    gross weight: 77.84 gr (0.172 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.187

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: 52, no. 63, pl. 21.

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, repro. 66, as Madonna and Child with two Angels.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 22-23, no. 62, fig. 67.

Inscriptions

on edge bands: OPVS.IO HANNIS.FRAN / CISCI.PAR MENSIS. (The work of Giovanni Francesco of Parma); on shield below angle of ground line, in monogram: L O S (possibly an unidentified owner's initals)[1]

Markings

Obverse border flange at 9:30 bears collector’s stamp B.M. (Baron Boissel de Monville). Reverse bears former inventory numbers 97A in black ink (canceled with red paint: probably collection of Eugène Piot), 67 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 63 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814991

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