Achilles Taking Leave of Thetis and Chiron

first quarter 16th century

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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): 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.) gross weight: 42 gr

  • Accession

    1957.14.232

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1944 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:, 2:96-97, no. 523.

1908

  • Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 31, fig. 22.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 77, no. 108, pl. 32.

1951

  • National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 148.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 40, no. 126, fig. 87.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 29, no. 3.

1986

  • Ford, Terrence, compiler and ed. Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 1. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York 1986: no. 21.

1997

  • Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds.. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 57.

2003

  • Avagnina, Maria Elisa, Margaret Binotto, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, eds. Pinacoteca civica di Vicenza: catalogo scientifico delle collezioni. Milan, 2003: 3:199.

2017

  • Martinez, Trinity. "A Newly Discovered Textual Source for the Master of the Orpheus Legend's Chiron Plaquettes." Source: Notes in the History of Art 37 (Fall 2017): 15-25, fig. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q63814762

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