Hercules and Antaeus

late 15th - early 16th century

Moderno

Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Light brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.39 × 5.77 cm (2 15/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
    gross weight: 86.66 gr (0.191 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.323

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

1989

  • Image and Word, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1989, no. 23.

Bibliography

1886

  • Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 1:148, no. 202.

1908

  • Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30, pl. 19, fig. 9.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 150, no. 199, pl. 63.

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: 152.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 50, no. 163, fig. 159.

1989

  • Image and Word. Exh. cat. Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1989.

  • Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 113, 140, no. III.A.2.

2003

  • Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:378.

Markings

Reverse bears reference and former inventory numbers 202 in faint white paint (Molinier no., effaced), 476(?) in heavier white paint (Bange no.?), 155 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 199 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63815093

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