Woman Cutting Her Nails, early 17th century

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 25

Medium

bronze//Black lacquer (much rubbed) over medium brown bronze; traces of gilding on drapery and seat

Dimensions

overall: 8.2 x 5.1 x 6 cm (3 1/4 x 2 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.24

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (sculptor)

Barthélemy Prieur (related artist) French, 1540 - 1611

Image Use

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Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 26, no. 15, pl. 13.

1951: Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 140, as The nail-cutter by Italian 16th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 469.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 190, no. 53.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 92, repro.

2021: Ekserdjian, David. Review of Vita Segreto, ed., Libri e album di desegni, 1550-1800: Nuove prospettive metodologiche e di esegesi storico-critica, Rome 2019. Master Drawings no. 59 (2021): 547, fig. 2.