Venus, Cupid and Vulcan

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

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Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10.84 × 7.86 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
    gross weight: 258.52 gr (0.57 lb.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.260


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, 136.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 211.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 77, no. 5.

1989

  • Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 28, fig. 25.

Markings

Reverse bears fragmentary traces of red paint (Dreyfus), as well as earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

Wikidata ID

Q63814700

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