Orpheus Redeeming Eurydice

late 15th - early 16th century

Moderno

Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina (much rubbed)

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 10.65 cm (4 3/16 in.)
    gross weight: 156.82 gr (0.346 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.331

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, 207.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 172.

2013

  • Volz, Peter. Medaillen und Plaketten der Renaissance aus einer Schweizer Privatsammlung. Munich, 2013: 210.

  • Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 125 fig. 75, 126.

2024

  • Manges Nogueira, Alison. “Concealing portraits in Renaissance Venice: Jacometto’s painted box.” The Burlington Magazine 166 (February 2024): 135, fig. 18.

Markings

Reverse bears former catalogue number 208 in faint white paint (Molinier 1886), as well as former inventory numbers 163 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 207 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63815098

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