A Warrior Fighting a Horseman, 15th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 3.99 x 5.33 cm (1 9/16 x 2 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 27.03 gr (0.06 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.164

Artists / Makers

Roman 15th Century (sculptor)

Roman 16th Century (sculptor)

the Antique (artist after)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears illegible traces of former inventory number in red paint (Dreyfus) and 40 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.

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:19-20, no. 35, as Two Men Fighting.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 22, no. 4.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 38-39, no. 40, pl. 16, as Florentine, A Warrior Fighting a Horseman.

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, as Florentine 15th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 76, no. 260, fig. 38, as Timeter Overcome by Turnus.

1981: Cannata, Pietro. "L'Eneide nelle placchette." In Fagiolo, Marcello, ed. Virgilio nell'arte e nella cultura Europea. Exh. cat. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome, 1981: 236, no. 1.

1997: Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 52.

2006: Fusco, Laurie and Gino Corti. Lorenzo de' Medici: Collector and Antiquarian. Cambridge, UK, 2006: 102, 104 fig. 110.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:53, under Prototipo, M.9, as Achilles and Troilus, Paduan, beginning of the sixteenth century.