The Philosopher Cato

early 16th century

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin

  • Dimensions

    overall: 3.31 x 2.64 cm (1 5/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
    gross weight: 14.07 gr (0.031 lb.)

  • Accession

    1992.55.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Satori Ltd., Vienna); purchased by Lisa and Leonard Baskin, Leeds, Massachusetts; gift 1992 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2008

  • Kokole, Stanko. "The Silver Shrine of Saint Simeon in Zadar: Collecting Ancient Coins and Casts after the Antique in Fifteenth-Century Dalmatia." 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): 112-113, 117 fig. 15, 122 n. 15, as Roman or Florentine sixteenth century (though publishing a copy dated 1497).

Wikidata ID

Q63860668

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