The Virgin and Child
15th century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Light brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 13.23 x 8.49 cm (5 3/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
gross weight: 458.8 gr (1.011 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.142
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: 2:101, no. 350, as Florentine school.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 24, no. 18, pl. 12, as Florentine school.
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: 142, as Florentine school, Madonna and Child.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 69-70, no. 233, fig. 11.
2001
Palmer, Allison Lee. "The Walters' Madonna and Child Plaquette and Private Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy." The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 59 (2001): 76, 78 fig. 9, 83 n. 29.
2013
Langhanke, Birgit. Die Madonnenreliefs im Werk von Antonio Rossellino. Ph.D. diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 2013: 396.
2014
Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:891.
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers 315 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 18 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63814713