Part of a Sword Pommel (Centaur Supporting Medallion; Venus Flanked by Mars and Hercules)

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Light brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 3.78 x 3.65 cm (1 1/2 x 1 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 33.52 gr (0.074 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.227

Artists / Makers

Caradosso Foppa (artist) Milanese, c. 1452 - 1526/1527

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory number 18 in red paint (Dreyfus), and earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

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

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 18, repro., as Sword Pommel, by Caradosso.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 75, no. 103, pl. 31, as by Caradosso.

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 by Caradosso.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 100, no. 360, fig. 302, as North Italian, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.