Constantia

16th century

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Light brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 5.64 cm (2 1/4 in.)
    gross weight: 36.6 gr (0.081 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.418

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably G.B. Lucini Passalacqua [d. 1890], Milan; probably (his sale, at La Scala by Giulio Sambon, Milan, 14–21 April 1885, 5th day, no. 231). possibly purchased at Passalaqua sale by Gustave Dreyfus [1837–1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased 1930 with entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 294.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 110.

1989

  • Fulton, Christopher B. "The Master IO.F.F. and the Function of Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):146-147, repro.

Inscriptions

incised on tablet with handles suspended in upper field: CONST / ANTIA (Constancy)

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 175(?) in white paint and an illegible number in light gray paint (unidentified collections); as well as 327 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 294 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814831

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