Augustus, 15th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

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.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.175

Artists / Makers

Florentine 15th Century (sculptor)

the Antique (artist after)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse formerly bore previous inventory number 51 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931)); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.

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.

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.