A Child Angel

15th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze, some gilding//Medium brown patina; wings, hair and halo gilded

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (silhouetted): 6.01 x 2.71 cm (2 3/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
    gross weight: 25.15 gr (0.055 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.393

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

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 194, no. 269, pl. 81, as Venetian, fifteenth century.

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.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 81, no. 282, as Florentine, second half of fifteenth century.

Markings

Reverse bears former inventory number 296 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63814809

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