The Virgin and Child
16th century
North Italian 15th Century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
gilded bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (silhouetted contour): 10.49 x 6.25 cm (4 1/8 x 2 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 115.96 gr (0.256 lb.) -
Accession Number
1957.14.455
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: 223, no. 321, pl. 94, as North Italian, early sixteenth 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: 155, as North Italian, early sixteenth century.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 82, no. 283, fig. 27, as Florentine, second half of the fifteenth century.
Markings
Earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.
Wikidata ID
Q63814856