Madonna and Child between Two Candelabra

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 15

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall (with finial): 12.15 x 8.62 cm (4 13/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
overall (height without finial): 9.68 cm (3 13/16 in.)
gross weight: 266.83 gr (0.588 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.357

Artists / Makers

Paduan 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former pricing code 162 / AM / M in black ink (unidentified dealer), as well as former inventory numbers 367 in beige paint (unidentified collection), canceled with stroke of red paint; 253 in red paint (Dreyfus); and 233 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.

Exhibition History

1984: Joseph Ternbach: Conservator - Collector, The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, 1984-1985, no. 60.

Bibliography

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 2:27-28, no. 367, repro 29.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30, repro.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 172, no. 233, pl. 72.

1951: Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 145, as Madonna and Child.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 21, no. 59, fig. 2.

1998: Vannel, Fiorenza, and Giuseppe Toderi. Medaglie e placchette del Museo Bardini di Firenze. Florence, 1998: 141.

2006: Bergbauer, Bertrand and Catherine Chédeau. Images en relief: La collection de plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance. Paris, 2006: 75.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:76, under Prototipo, M.19, as after Donatello.