Bust of a Youth

Anonymous Artist

Sculptor

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Yellow-brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • 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


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