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Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G14

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 10.73 × 8.46 cm (4 1/4 × 3 5/16 in.)
gross weight: 357 gr (0.787 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.249

Artists / Makers

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (sculptor) Paduan, 1470 - 1532

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Inscription

vertically on reverse, reading downward from upper center, raised cast monogram, "o" in superscript: R[icci]o I[nvenit] (Riccio invented this)

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory number 175 in red paint (Dreyfus).

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.

Exhibition History

1980: Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1980-1981, no. 46, repro.

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018, no. 9

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 1:159-160, no. 218, repro. 161.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30-32, repro. 25.

1927: Planiscig, Leo. Andrea Riccio. Vienna, 1927: 436, 490.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 92, no. 125, pl. 38.

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.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 62, no. 208, fig. 105.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 76, no. 1.

1989: Jestaz, Bertrand. "Riccio et Ulocrino." In Alison Luchs, ed. Italian Plaquettes. Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 194, fig. 4.

1989: Jestaz, Bertrand. "Riccio et Ulocrino." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):194, repro.

1989: Sturman, Shelley and Berrie, Barbara. "Technical Examination of Riccio Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):184-186, repro.

2006: Rossi, Francesco, ed. Placchette e rilievi di bronzo nell'età del Mantegna. Exh. cat. Museo della Città di Palazzo San Sebastiano, Mantua, 2006: 81.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 95, 96 fig. 62.

2014: Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:887.

2020: Malgouyres, Philippe. De Filarete à Riccio. Bronzes italiens de la Renaissance (1430-1550). La collection du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2020: 183-184.