Christ Carrying the Cross
Artist, Italian, 1468 - 1546
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (trapezoidal): 7.6 x 11.8 cm (3 x 4 5/8 in.) gross weight: 282 gr
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Accession
1957.14.490
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:, 1:198, no. 273, note.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 244, no. 356, pl. 103.
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: 11, no. 15, fig. 361.
1979
Kris, Ernst. Meister und Meisterwerke der Steinschneidekunst in der italienischen Renaissance. 1929. Reprint, 2 vols. in 1. Vienna, 1979: 32, 52, 162, no. 181, pl. 43.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 115, no. 7, repro.
1989
Davis, Charles. "Jacopo Sansovino and the Italian Plaquette." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989):268, 269, repro.
2004
Donati, Valentino and Rosanna Casadio. Bronzi e pietre dure nelle incisione di Valerio Belli vicentino. Ferrara, 2004: 104.
2013
Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 320.
Wikidata ID
Q63815267