Hercules between Minerva and Venus
Artist, Italian, 1468 - 1546
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 4.6 x 4.2 cm (1 13/16 x 1 5/8 in.) gross weight: 23 gr
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Accession
1957.14.502
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:, 1:204, no. 288.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 251, no. 368, pl. 106.
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: 12, no. 21, fig. 370.
1997
Kagan, Julia O. "The Classical Hero as Ideal Ruler on Two early Nineteeth-Century Russian Cameos." Studies in the History of Art 54 (1997): 283-285, repro. no. 10.
2004
Donati, Valentino and Rosanna Casadio. Bronzi e pietre dure nelle incisione di Valerio Belli vicentino. Ferrara, 2004: 136, as Hercules at the Crossroads.
Inscriptions
across bottom: INSTAR.
Wikidata ID
Q63815277