Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 5.1 x 8.62 cm (2 x 3 3/8 in.)
gross weight: 87.13 gr (0.192 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.183

Artists / Makers

Gianfrancesco Enzola (artist) Parmese, active 1455/1478

Image Use

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Inscription

below angle of ground line: IOANNIS.FRANCISI.PARMENSIS.OPVS. (The work of Giovanni Francesco of Parma)

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears previous inventory numbers 59 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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.

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:61-62, no. 92.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 50, no. 59, pl. 20.

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.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 23, no. 64, fig. 66.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 59, no. 6.