Jesus Among the Doctors
1537 or after
Artist, Italian, 1468 - 1546
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina (slightly rubbed)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 6.1 x 9.9 cm (2 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.) gross weight: 155 gr
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Accession
1957.14.487
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:, 1:193, no. 264.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 242, no. 353, pl. 102.
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: 156.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 9, no. 6, fig. 354.
1979
Kris, Ernst. Meister und Meisterwerke der Steinschneidekunst in der italienischen Renaissance. 1929. Reprint, 2 vols. in 1. Vienna, 1979: 51-52, 162, no. 175, pl. 41.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 114, no. 4.
1998
Avery, Charles, Marzia Ratti, and Angela Acordon, eds. Sculture: bronzetti, placchette, medaglie. Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia. [Cinisello Balsamo], 1998: 288, no. 208.
2004
Donati, Valentino and Rosanna Casadio. Bronzi e pietre dure nelle incisione di Valerio Belli vicentino. Ferrara, 2004: 86.
Inscriptions
lower right on altar: VALERIVS / FE
Wikidata ID
Q63815264