Marine Scene

Caradosso Foppa

Artist, Milanese, c. 1452 - 1526/1527

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 4.96 x 4.87 cm (1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
    gross weight: 40.4 gr (0.089 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.223

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

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 72, no. 99, pl. 30, as A Seaside Scene.

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, as A Seaside Scene.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 18–19, no. 50, fig. 77, as Unidentified Marine Scene.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 98, no. 5, as Marine Scene.

1989

  • Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 22, fig. 8.

1993

  • Meller, Peter. "Bronzetti del Caradosso?" In Shell, Janice and Liana Castelfranchi, eds. Giovanni Antonio Amadeo: Scultura e architettura del suo tempo. Milan, 1993: 540–541, 556 fig. 12, as Marine Scene.

1997

  • Brown, Clifford and Sally Hickson. "Caradosso Foppa (ca. 1452–1526/27)." Arte Lombarda 119:1 (1997): 21.

2011

  • Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:146, under Prototipo, M.5, 147 fig. a.

Markings

Faint traces still visible of former inventory number in red paint (Dreyfus), and possible “ghost” image of former 99 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); pigments probably removed in 1982 cleaning, leaving faint underlying chemical traces of former numerals.

Wikidata ID

Q63814963

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