The Adoration of the Magi, 1537 or after

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G16

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 6 x 6 cm (2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.) gross weight: 80 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.484

Artists / Makers

Valerio Belli (artist) Italian, 1468 - 1546

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right on frieze of arch: VALERIVS VICENTINVS

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, 240, no. 350, pl. 101.

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: 156.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 8-9, no. 4, fig. 349.

1974: Bascapé, Giacomo C. "Medaglie, plachette, sigilli con le figure dei Magi." Arte Lombarda 19: 41 (1974): 29, fig. 5.

2004: Donati, Valentino and Rosanna Casadio. Bronzi e pietre dure nelle incisione di Valerio Belli vicentino. Ferrara, 2004: 84.