An Allegorical Scene (Fame & Eros)

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Sculptor, Paduan, 1470 - 1532

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 6.03 cm (2 3/8 in.)
    overall (diameter to broken edge): 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.)
    gross weight: 46.27 gr (0.102 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.347

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

2003

  • In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece, National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004, no. VIII.42, repro.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 223.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 221.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 83, no. 33.

2013

  • Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 200-201, fig. 124.

Inscriptions

in exergue: F.V.D. (possibly for F[AMA].V[IRTUS].D[UCIT]. or Virtue leads to Fame)

Markings

In obverse field, at 1:00 the stamped inverted collector’s mark B.M. (for Boissel de Monville). Reverse bears earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

Wikidata ID

Q63814708

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