Madonna and Child before a Niche

late 1440s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (arched top): 9.56 x 7.63 cm (3 3/4 x 3 in.)
    gross weight: 217.31 gr (0.479 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.358


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

1980

  • Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1980-1981, no. 39, repro.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 2: 174, no. 234.

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: 20-21, no. 57.

1980

  • Callmann, Ellen. Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance. Exh. cat. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, 1980: 44-45, no. 39.

2001

  • Palmer, Allison Lee. "The Walters' Madonna and Child Plaquette and Private Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy." The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 59 (2001): 82 n. 5, 82 n.17.

Markings

Reverse bears former (original?) numeration 5(?), incised in rough dotted lines, perhaps in the wax; as well as pricing code 2560/1405 in black ink (unidentified dealer), and former inventory numbers 254 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 234 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814777


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