Orpheus Redeeming Eurydice, late 15th - early 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G16

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina (much rubbed)

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 10.65 cm (4 3/16 in.)
gross weight: 156.82 gr (0.346 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.331

Artists / Makers

Moderno (artist) Veronese, 1467 - 1528

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former catalogue number 208 in faint white paint (Molinier 1886), as well as former inventory numbers 163 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 207 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 207.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 172.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 125 fig. 75, 126.

2013: Volz, Peter. Medaillen und Plaketten der Renaissance aus einer Schweizer Privatsammlung. Munich, 2013: 210.

2024: Manges Nogueira, Alison. “Concealing portraits in Renaissance Venice: Jacometto’s painted box.” The Burlington Magazine 166 (February 2024): 135, fig. 18.