Venus and Cupid, early 16th century

Not on View

Medium

gilded bronze

Dimensions

overall (oval w/ silhouetted top): 4.2 x 3.3 cm (1 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.) gross weight: 22 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.390

Artists / Makers

Paduan 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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, 192, no. 266, pl. 80.

1951: National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 154.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 29, no. 84, fig. 225 (as Master of the Birth of Venus).