Charity

c. 1530

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.8 x 10.5 x 7.2 cm (8 3/16 x 4 1/8 x 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.29

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

Exhibition History

1981

  • The Bronze Figure in Italy, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; The J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, 1981, no. 6.

1985

  • Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany, 1985-1986, no. 71.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 34, no. 20, pl. 17.

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, repro. 32, as Vestal Virgin (Allegory of Love or Charity?.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 516.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 80, no. 20.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 228, repro.

2008

  • Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." 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): 475.

2021

  • Warren, Jeremy. “The Collecting of Small Bronze Sculptures in Late Renaissance Italy: The Canonici Collection”, in Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States 1500-1930. Variety and Ambiguity. Edited by Malcolm Baker and Inge Reist. Leiden, 2021: 60

Wikidata ID

Q63810217

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