King Juba I of Numidia Led in Triumph by Julius Caesar, c. 1433/1435

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 15.4 x 27.4 cm (6 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
gross weight: 2122.3 gr (4.679 lb.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1999.102.1

Artists / Makers

Antonio Averlino, called Filarete (sculptor) Italian, c. 1400 - 1469

Image Use

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Inscription

top right, divided by head of rider: IVLIVS CEASAR (Julius Ceasar); lower left, beneath mount: REX.IVBA (King Juba)

Provenance

Private collection, Rome, until at least May 1945.[1] Private collection, Germany, in late 1990s; sold early 1999 to (Peter Silverman, Paris); sold to private collection, England, by May 1999; purchased 1 November 1999 through (Richard Falkiner, London) by NGA.

[1] The relief was lent to an exhibition at the Studio d'Arte Palma in Rome from May through July 1945. The owner in the catalogue is listed as a private collection in Rome.

Associated Names

Falkiner, Richard

Exhibition History

1945: Mostra Antiche Sculture Italiane, Studio d'Arte Palma, Rome, 1945, no. 13.

Bibliography

1973: Middeldorf, Ulrich. "Filarete?" Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 17, no. 1 (1973): 75-86, esp. note 36.

1989: Cannata, Pietro. “Le placchette del Filarete.” In Italian Plaquettes. Douglas Lewis, ed. Studies in the History of Art 22, Symposium Papers 9 (1989): 50 n. 35.

2011: Glass, Robert. “Filarete at the Papal Court: Sculpture, Ceremony and the Antique in Early Renaissance Rome.” Ph.D. diss, Princeton University, (2011): 357 n.36, 361 n.46, 362 n.48, 376 n.79.

2016: Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at Carlton Hobbs LLC. Important European Bronzes. London, 2016: 62, 64.

2020: Malgouyres, Philippe. De Filarete à Riccio. Bronzes italiens de la Renaissance (1430-1550). La collection du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2020: 30, describing the NGA plaquette as an aftercast of an example in a private Chilean collection.