Two Bacchantes, early 16th century

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Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall (trapezoidal): 3.73 x 3.21 cm (1 7/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
gross weight: 19.64 gr (0.043 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.216

Artists / Makers

Paduan 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right on altar: THI / ADS [Thyiades] (Bacchantes)

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: 2:68, no. 452, as Milanese school, Two Bacchantes.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 68, no. 92, pl. 29, as Milanese school.

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: 145, as Milanese, fifteenth century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 91, 92, no. 323, fig. 249, as Paduan, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 67, no. 20, as Paduan, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.