The Entombment
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio
Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 14.46 × 20.7 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 1635.75 gr (3.606 lb.) -
Accession Number
1957.14.252
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Eugene Piot [1812-1890], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25-30 April 1864, no. 29); Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris;[1] sold with his collection 1872 to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1944 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.
[1] This early provenance was kindly provided by Marie-Amélie Carlier (e-mail of 12 October 2007 to Nicholas Penny, in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
Rinascimento e Passione per L'Antico. Andrea Riccio e il suo tempo, Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, 2008, no. 17, repro., as by Andrea Riccio (?).
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 128.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 204.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 88, no. 3.
1989
Lloyd, Christopher. "Two Large Plaquettes in Oxford from the Collection of C. D. E. Fortnum." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):216, repro. 217.
Sturman, Shelley, and Barbara Berrie. "Technical Examination of Riccio Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):177, 186, repro.
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory number 178 in red paint (Dreyfus) and earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.
Wikidata ID
Q63814690