Madonna and Child with Two Angels
second half 15th century
Sculptor
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
gilded bronze//Excluding flesh areas of figures
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (minimum width across central pilaster shafts): 19.35 × 9.08 cm (7 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
overall (maximum width across wings of angels): 19.35 × 11.35 cm (7 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 740.2 gr (1.632 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.392
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
Bibliography
1886
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 2:55, no. 425.
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: 194, no. 268.
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: 146, repro 72.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 81, no. 281, fig. 25.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 25, no. 1.
Markings
Reverse bears number 425 in white paint (Molinier 1886), and former inventory numbers 294 in red paint (Dreyfus), 268 in (mostly missing) yellow paint (Ricci 1931), as well as earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.
Wikidata ID
Q63814808