Door Knocker, 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 15.9 x 11.2 x 3 cm (6 1/4 x 4 7/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.120

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

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

1989: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin, 1989, brochure, no. 6.

1998: A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 104.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 136, no. 117, pl. 79.

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 Door knocker in the shape of a siren by Italian (Venetian?) 16th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 545.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 114, repro.

2010: Luchs, Alison. The Mermaids of Venice: Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art. Turnhout, Belgium, 2010: 173, fig. 224, 224 n. 48.