Bust of a Youth
Sculptor
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Yellow-brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval with loop): 6.03 × 5.16 cm (2 3/8 × 2 1/16 in.)
overall (internal oval field): 3.36 × 2.7 cm (1 5/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
gross weight: 37.95 gr (0.084 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.171
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
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 42-43, no. 47, pl. 17.
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: 16, no. 43, fig. 384.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 112, no. 12.
1987
Cannata, Pietro. Piccoli bronzi rinascimentali e barocchi del Museo Oliveriano di Pesaro. Pesaro, 1987: 97, 98 n. 7, as Italian, beginning of the sixteenth century.
1989
Donati 1989, 220-221, pl. 95.
2014
Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:911.
Markings
Reverse formerly bore previous inventory number 47 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numeral was removed during 1982 cleaning.
Wikidata ID
Q63814741