The Virgin and Child

16th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gilded bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • 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

    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

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