An Allegorical Scene

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 6.35 cm (2 1/2 in.)
    gross weight: 48.33 gr (0.107 lb.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.345

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, 221.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 219.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 83, no. 34.

1989

  • Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 28-29, fig. 26.

2013

  • Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 247, fig. 141, as Rwo Genii Stealing Books from A Sleeping Male.

Inscriptions

in exergue, above crossed branches of palm and laurel, in Greek letters: (Pious theft)

Markings

Reverse bears earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

Wikidata ID

Q63814706

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