The Dead Christ with Two Angels

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 15

Medium

gilded bronze

Dimensions

overall: 23.75 x 18.2 cm (9 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
gross weight: 1666.2 gr (3.673 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.139

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Bellano (artist) Paduan, 1437/1438 - 1496/1497

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left reverse, in incuse lettering, possibly from a direct inscription in the wax: Vellano

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 50 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 15 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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

1985: Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello, Detroit Institute of Arts; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 1985-1986, no. 85 (English cat.), no. 107 (Italian cat.), repro. (not shown in Florence).

2011: Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese: The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, 2011, no. 27, repro.

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:40, no. 72, as school of Donatello.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. “La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, III: Petits bronzes—Bas-reliefs.” Les Arts 73 (Jan. 1908): 22, repro. 17, as attributed to Donatello.

1925: Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. "La collection Gustave Dreyfus." L'Amour de l'Art 6, no. 7 (1925): 257, repro. 250, as by Donatello (or a follower of Donatello).

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 20, no. 15, pl. 10.

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: 143, repro. 65.

1958: Landais, Herbert. Les Bronzes Italiens de la Renaissance. Paris, 1958: 36, as by Luca della Robbia.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 8, no. 3, fig. 14.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 60, no. 12, repro.

1986: Avery, Charles. "Donatello Celebrations." Apollo 123 (January 1986): 18, as possibly from a wax model by Donatello.

1988: Krahn, Volker. Bartolomeo Bellano: Studien zur Paduaner Plastik des Quattrocento. Munich, 1988: 108-111, fig. 53, as North Italian, last quarter fifteenth century.

1991: Gentilini, Giancarlo. "Urbano di Pietro, detto Urbano da Cortona, Cristo in Pietà, sorretto da due angeli." In Romano, Giovanni, ed. Dal Trecento al Seicento: le arti a paragone. Exh. cat. Antichi Maestri Pittori, Turin, 1991: 44, 45 repro.

2010: Pistocchi, Michele Andrea. "Seguace di Donatello, Bartolomeo Bellano, attr., Cristo in Pietà e tre angeli." In Crescentini, Claudio, and Claudio Strinati, eds. La forma del Rinascimento: Donatello, Andrea Bregno, Michelangelo, e la scultura a Roma nel Quattrocento. Exh. cat. Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 2010: 228.