Infant Bacchants with Pipes, a Vase, and a Mask of Silenus

c. 1465/1471

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 4.45 x 8.06 cm (1 3/4 x 3 3/16 in.)
    gross weight: 46.98 gr (0.104 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.136


Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

1886

  • Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:46, no. 79, as School of Donatello.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 16, no. 12, pl. 8, as by Donatello.

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: 141, as Attributed to Donatello.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 100-101, no. 361, fig. 303, as probably North Italian.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 82, no. 28, as North Italian, early sixteenth century.

2011

  • Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:80, under Prototipo, M.27, as by circle of Cristoforo di Geremia.

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory numbers (illegible) in white paint (unidentified collection) and 54 in red paint (Dreyfus), and earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

Wikidata ID

Q63810128


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