Two Hunters
second half 15th century
Artist, Bolognese, active 1468/1484
Master IO.F.F.
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 3.29 cm (1 5/16 in.)
gross weight: 12.74 gr (0.028 lb.) -
Accession Number
1957.14.473
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: 233–234, no. 339, pl. 98, as Two Hunters, by “Master IO.F.F.”
1951
National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 153, as Two Hunters, by “Master IO.F.F.”
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 35, no. 105, fig. 126, as Allegorical Scene, by “Master IO.F.F.”
1989
Fulton, Christopher Brian. "The Master IO.F.F. and the Function of Plaquettes." Italian Plaquettes ed. by Alison Luchs; In Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 158, note 4, as Allegory with a Sleeping Man, by “Master IO.F.F.”
1998
Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 56.
Inscriptions
in exergue, traces of relief signature: .IO[HANNES].F[ONDULUS]. (Giovanni Fonduli)
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory number 95 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 339 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63815023