Allegorical Scene [reverse]

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G14

Medium

bronze//Medium red-brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 5.3 cm (2 1/16 in.) gross weight: 77 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.352.b

Artists / Makers

Master I.S.A. (artist) Italian, active first half 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

in exergue: .FA[MA]

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

2002: Pfisterer, Ulrich. Donatello und die Entdeckung der Stile 1430-1445. Munich, 2002: 165 fig. 34 and n.151.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 128-129, fig. 79.