Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in.)
gross weight: 88.27 gr (0.195 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.426
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: 2:94, no. 517, as Northern Italian, end of the fifteenth century.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 212, no. 302, pl. 89, as Northern Italian, c.1500.
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: 148, as Northern Italian, c. 1500.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 89, no. 311, fig. 277, as possibly Milanese.
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers 329 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 302 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63814838