Meleager Presenting the Boar's Head to Atalanta
Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 7.85 × 6.36 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
gross weight: 144.45 gr (0.318 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.261
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. vol.II, 137.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 212.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 79, no. 14.
1989
Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 28, fig, 24.
Markings
Reverse bears nearly illegible former inventory number 264(?) in white paint (unidentified collection), as well as illegible three-digit number in red paint (Dreyfus) and earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.
Wikidata ID
Q63814701