Mars and Victory

late 15th - early 16th century

Moderno

Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Yellow-brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.07 × 5.56 cm (2 13/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
    gross weight: 78.11 gr (0.172 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.307

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

1886

  • Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 1:139, no. 186, note.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 141, no. 183, pl. 59.

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: 151.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 49, no. 159, fig. 162.

1989

  • Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 123, repro.

1998

  • Avery, Charles, Marzia Ratti, and Angela Acordon, eds. Sculture: bronzetti, placchette, medaglie. Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia. [Cinisello Balsamo], 1998: 274, no. 194, misidentified as 1957.14.207.

2003

  • Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:381.

2006

  • Bergbauer, Bertrand and Catherine Chédeau. Images en relief: La collection de plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance. Paris, 2006: 65.

Markings

Reverse bears former reference number 186bis in white paint (referring to second shape listed in Molinier 1886, no. 186), canceled by 141 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 183 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63815079

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