Leda and the Swan

early 17th century

Paul Hübner

Sculptor, German, active 1582 - 1614

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Light red-brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval, without loop): 6.1 x 4.8 cm (2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.) gross weight: 26 gr

  • Accession

    1957.14.586

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.

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Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 452.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 432.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 160, no. 11.

2008

  • Lewis, Douglas. "Collectors of Renaissance Reliefs: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) and Baron Boissel de Monville (1763-1832)." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 139, 140 figs. 15 and 16.

Wikidata ID

Q63815109

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