Andrea Doria Guided by Neptune

c. 1541

Leone Leoni

Artist, Milanese, c. 1509 - 1590

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Dark brown patina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 8.7 x 7.5 cm (3 7/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.526

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

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 392.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 75.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 132, no. 18.

1997

  • Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 90.

2006

  • Thornton, Dora. "A Plaquette by Leone Leoni Acquired by the British Museum." The Burlington Magazine 148:1245 (December 2006): 828 n. 7.

Inscriptions

upper left: ANDR. PATRIS. AVSPICIIS[ET] / PROPRIO.LABORE

Wikidata ID

Q63815011

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