The Rape of Ganymede
Artist, Milanese, c. 1452 - 1526/1527
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
gilded bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (with palmette frame): 8.49 x 8.37 cm (3 5/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
center section: 5.08 x 5.02 cm (2 x 2 in.)
gross weight: 58.05 gr (0.128 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.219
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: 1:102, no. 149.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 27, repro. 18.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 70, no. 95, pl. 30.
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: 148.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 17–18, no. 47, fig. 71.
1989
Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 20-21, fig. 5.
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory number 110 in red paint (Dreyfus).
Wikidata ID
Q63814959