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Roman 15th Century, after the Antique

Apollo and Marsyas, mid 15th century

Not on View

Medium

bronze//Dark brown laquer (much rubbed) over light brown bronze

Dimensions

overall (oval): 4.18 x 3.41 cm (1 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
gross weight: 23.84 gr (0.053 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.148

Artists / Makers

Roman 15th Century (sculptor)

the Antique (artist after)

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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

1992: The Genius of the Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1992, no. 16, repro.

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:2-3, no. 2, note.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 28-29, no. 24, pl. 14, as Florentine.

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.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 73, no. 246, fig. 35.

1975: Wixom, Wililam D. Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections. Exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1975: nos. 25-26.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 29, no. 5, as Florentine.

1986: Ford, Terrence, compiler and ed. Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 1. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York 1986: no. 34, as Florentine.

1987: Cannata, Pietro. Piccoli bronzi rinascimentali e barocchi del Museo Oliveriano di Pesaro. Pesaro, 1987: 51, 54 n. 48.

1989: Rossi, Francesco. "Le Gemme Antiche e le Origini della Placchetta." In Italian Plaquettes. Douglas Lewis, ed. Studies in the History of Art 22, Symposium Papers 9 (1989): 58-59, fig. 5.

1997: Caglioti, Francesco, and Davide Gasparotto. “Lorenzo Ghiberti, il ‘Sigillo di Nerone,’ e le origini della placchetta antiquaria.” Prospettiva 85 (January 1997): 2–38, esp. 28, note 48.

1998: Avery, Charles, Marzia Ratti, and Angela Acordon, eds. Sculture: bronzetti, placchette, medaglie. Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia. [Cinisello Balsamo], 1998: 262, no. 182.

2010: Gennaioli, Riccardo, ed. Pregio e bellezza: cammei e intagli dei Medici. Exh. cat. Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence. Livorno, 2010: 130, no. 38.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:30, under Variante B, M.36.