Two Cupids with Flutes, 16th century

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 369 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 404 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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.

Bibliography

1886

Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 2:130, no. 616, as Italian, sixteenth century, Two Little Genii.

1931

Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 266, no. 404, pl. 94, as Italian sixteenth century, Two Cupids with Flutes.

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: 158, as Italian sixteenth century, Two Cupids with Flutes.

1965

Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 111, no. 412, fig. 414, as Italian(?), Two Putti Playing Flutes.

1986

Ford, Terrence, compiler and ed. Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 1. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1986: 4, no. 85, as Two Putti Playing Wind Instruments.

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