Christ Appearing to the Apostles
Artist, Italian, 1468 - 1546
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 8.5 x 5.3 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.) gross weight: 81 gr
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Accession
1957.14.498
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:, 1:203, no. 284.
1908
Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 28, fig. 2.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 248-249, no. 364, pl. 105.
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, Sttuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 11, no. 17, fig. 362.
2004
Donati, Valentino and Rosanna Casadio. Bronzi e pietre dure nelle incisione di Valerio Belli vicentino. Ferrara, 2004: 122, no. 116, repro.
Inscriptions
center beneath lunette: PAX.VOBIS / ACCIPITE / SPIRITVM / SANCTVM; across bottom under rim: .VALERIVS.F.
Wikidata ID
Q63815274