Silenus and the Mainads
Artist, Milanese, c. 1452 - 1526/1527
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 5.04 x 4.9 cm (2 x 1 15/16 in.)
gross weight: 43.19 gr (0.095 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.221
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: 1:105–106, no. 151.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 18, repro.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 71, no. 97, 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: 18, no. 49, fig. 78.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 98, no. 4.
1989
Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 22, fig. 7.
1993
Meller, Peter. "Bronzetti del Caradosso?" In Shell, Janice and Liana Castelfranchi, eds. Giovanni Antonio Amadeo: Scultura e architettura del suo tempo. Milan, 1993: 538, 552 fig. 6.
Wikidata ID
Q63814961