Augustus
15th century
Sculptor
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (irregular oval): 4.65 x 3.16 cm (1 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
gross weight: 33.21 gr (0.073 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.175
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
Exhibition History
1978
Antiquity in the Renaissance, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1978, no. 73.
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 44-45, no. 51, pl. 18, 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: 143, as Florentine.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 78, no. 269, fig. 50, as after the antique.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 27, no. 2.
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): 62-63, fig. 12, as plausibly Florentine.
Markings
Reverse formerly bore previous inventory number 51 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931)); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.
Wikidata ID
Q63814746