A Triumph

first quarter 17th century

Mantuan 16th Century

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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 (diameter): 4.08 cm (1 5/8 in.)
    gross weight: 24.52 gr (0.054 lb.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.245

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. vol.II, 121.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 304.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 65, no. 16.

1997

  • Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 59.

Inscriptions

around upper field, TV in monogram: SENATVS POP[U]L[U]S (the senate and the people); on shield, among arms in exergue: M[odernus (?)] (presumably signature initial of "Moderno")

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory number 640 in black paint (unidentified collection) and 121 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814763

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