Allegorical Scene-Sacrifice to Diana
second half 15th century
Artist, Bolognese, active 1468/1484
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Light brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 5.68 cm (2 1/4 in.)
gross weight: 44.64 gr (0.098 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.478
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: 1:98, no. 147, as Allegorical Subject, by Giovanni delle Corniole.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 18, fig. 5, as by Giovanni delle Corniole.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 237, no. 344, pl. 99, as An Allegorical Scene, by “Master IO.F.F.”
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: 154, as An Allegorical Scene, by “Master IO.F.F.”
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 35, no. 107, fig. 125, as An Allegorical Scene, by “Master IO.F.F.”
1989
Fulton, Christopher B. "The Master IO.F.F. and the Function of Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 146, 159 note 8, fig. 3, as Allegory with a Woman on a Dragon.
1997
Lucco, Mauro, Bertrand Jestaz, and Tiziana Franco, eds. Catalogo del Museo civico di Belluno. 3 vols. Vicenza, 1997: 3:40.
2011
Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:273, under Prototipo, M.19, as after the Master IO.F.F.
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers 108 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 344 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63815029