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.
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
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