A Sacrifice to Cupid
c. 1525
Sculptor
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 5.98 x 5.15 cm (2 3/8 x 2 in.)
gross weight: 44.78 gr (0.099 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.344
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. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:78-79, no. 117, as North Italian, possibly Milanese.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 164, no. 220, pl. 69, as by Master L C R I I.
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: 153, as by Master L C R I I.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 92, no. 326, fig. 254, as Paduan.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 82, no. 26, as Paduan.
1989
Radcliffe, Anthony. "Two Early Romano-Mantuan Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 93, as Romano-Mantuan, close to Cristoforo di Geremia.
2006
Leino, Marika. "Italian Renaissance plaquettes and Lombard architectural monuments." Arte Lombarda nuova serie 146/148, 1-3 (2006): 120, 121 fig. 29.
Inscriptions
in the exergue, the S smaller in size: L CSR II [1]
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers 86 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 220 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63814772