The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and Saint John

1513 or before

Moderno

Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 8.33 × 6.58 cm (3 1/4 × 2 9/16 in.)
    gross weight: 97.53 gr (0.215 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.298

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

Exhibition History

2011

  • Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese: The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, 2011, no. 31, repro.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 174.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 153.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 107, no. 13.

Markings

Reverse formerly bore previous inventory numbers 132 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 174 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.

Wikidata ID

Q63815072

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