The Virgin & Child with Angels

c. 1475

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.5 x 8.87 cm (5 5/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
    gross weight: 237.37 gr (0.523 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.364

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: 2:35, no. 381, as Paduan school, end of the fifteenth century.

1908

  • Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30, repro, as Paduan, fifteenth century.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 178, no. 240, pl. 75, as Paduan fifteenth century.

1951

  • Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 145, as Paduan 15th Century, Madonna and Child with angels.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 86-87, no. 303, fig. 29, as Ferrarese, second half of the fifteenth century (possibly around 1475).

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 53, no. 23, as Italian, possibly Ferrarese, c. 1475.

2006

  • Bergbauer, Bertrand and Catherine Chédeau. Images en relief: La collection de plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance. Paris, 2006: 75.

2007

  • Penny, Nicholas. "Mantegna Exhibitions in Italy." The Burlington Magazine 149, 1246 (January, 2007): 33.

2011

  • Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:254, under Variante A, M.8, as by Domenico di Paris (?).

Markings

Reverse bears illegible traces of former inventory number in white paint (unidentified collection).

Wikidata ID

Q63814783

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