A Child with a Crow, first half 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G14

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 6.4 x 3.7 x 5.3 cm (2 1/2 x 1 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.40

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

1983: Nuremberg: A Renaissance City 1500-1600, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983-1984, no. 120.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 46, no. 31, pl. 23.

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: 137, as by Italian 15th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 552.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 156.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 98, repro.