Mars and Victory
1507 or before
Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 10.54 cm (4 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 184.22 gr (0.406 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.306
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
1886
Molinier, Émile. L'Art 40 (1886): 172, repro.
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:138-139, no. 186, repro. 140.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30, pl. 21, fig. 4.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 140, no. 182, pl. 59.
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: 151.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 49, no. 158, fig. 167.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 110, no. 39.
1989
Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 140, no. III.B.3.
1998
Avery, Charles, Marzia Ratti, and Angela Acordon, eds. Sculture: bronzetti, placchette, medaglie. Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia. [Cinisello Balsamo], 1998: 274, no. 194.
Markings
Reverse formerly bore previous inventory numbers 14 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 182 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.
Wikidata ID
Q63815078