The Entombment

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11.32 × 15.75 cm (4 7/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
    gross weight: 726.5 gr (1.602 lb.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.251

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, 127.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 207.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 88, no. 4.

Inscriptions

lower center on paneled front of sarcophagus: QVEM.TOTVS.NON / CAP[IT].ORB[IS].IN HAC / TVMBA.CLAVDIT[UR]. (He whom the whole world could not contain is closed within this tomb)

Markings

Reverse bears earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

Wikidata ID

Q63814689

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