Inscription
around circumference: +DO[NO] : H[A]EC * FIDES = QVAM x FECIT * (I offer these [victories?] as Faith has accomplished them)[1]
Inscription Notes
[1] This solution of the very eccentric inscription, which had puzzled all previous commentators, is by the late Virginia Woods Callahan (letter of 17 January 1985 to Douglas Lewis, NGA curator).
Marks and Labels
Reverse bears 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.
Bibliography
- 1886
- Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:69, no. 100, as by Antico.
- 1931
- Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 86, no. 120, pl. 35, as by Antico.
- 1951
- National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 149, as by Antico.
- 1965
- Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 8, no. 2, fig. 70, as by Antico.
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