Bust of Alexander
c. 1500
Artist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 5.58 x 4.61 cm (2 3/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
gross weight: 55.55 gr (0.122 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.165
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: 1:26, no. 49, as fifteenth century.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 39, no. 41, pl. 16, as Florentine, 1500 or later.
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. 261, fig. 53.
1998
Vannel, Fiorenza, and Giuseppe Toderi. Medaglie e placchette del Museo Bardini di Firenze. Florence, 1998: 137.
2011
Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:63, under Prototipo, M.3, 64 fig. a.
2014
Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:925.
Inscriptions
along right edge: ALISANDRO (Alexander)
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers 32 (?) in red paint (Dreyfus) and 41, formerly in different red paint, subsequently reinscribed in yellow paint over the same numerals (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63814735