Woman Cutting Her Nails

early 17th century

Anonymous Artist

Sculptor

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25

Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1957.14.24

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Wikidata ID

Q63810245

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