The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents
late 15th - early 16th century
Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina (rubbed on exposed surf aces)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 8.98 × 7.83 cm (3 9/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
gross weight: 117.02 gr (0.258 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.314
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
Exhibition History
1978
Antiquity in the Renaissance, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1978, no. 92.
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 190.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 177.
2010
Lewis, Douglas. "The Villa Giustinian at Roncade: Tullio Lombardo or Fra Giocondo? The evidence of a newly recognized marble banqueting table of c. 1515 for the atrium." Annali di architettura 22 (2010): 45-62, fig. 15.
2011
Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:162, under Prototipo, M.3, as by the Master of the Labors of Hercules.
Markings
Reverse bears former reference number 193 in white paint, canceled with heavy stroke of red paint (as cat. in Molinier 1886), as well as former inventory number 147, in same heavy red paint (i.e., applied after 1886). The subsequent inv. no. 190 (Ricci 1931) was added once, in standard small yellow painted numbers at top, but became so badly preserved as to be almost completely rubbed away and was later reinforced by orange-brown crayon; it was then inscribed again in the same orange-brown crayon, in larger numerals in mid-field. Since no number has been added to the plaquette since the end of Dreyfus ownership in 1930, the post-1886 no. 147 in red paint must have been applied by Gustave Dreyfus himself.
Wikidata ID
Q63815085