An Emperor and Concord
Artist, Roman, active 1456 - 1476
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 7.11 x 7.05 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
gross weight: 121.3 gr (0.267 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.179
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:, 1:60, no. 90, note.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 27, pl. 22, no. 8.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 48, no. 55, pl. 19.
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 Augustus and Abundance.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 19-20, no. 54, fig. 19.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 31, no. 3.
2001
Palmer, Allison Lee. "The Walters' Madonna and Child Plaquette and Private Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy." The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 59 (2001): 83 n. 24.
2011
Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:83, under Prototipo, M.10, as Allegory of the Peace of the Church.
Inscriptions
between the serpents' heads on the caduceus: .OIX [or] BIX
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers 60 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 55 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63814971