The Judgment of Paris, 16th century

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Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter overall): 5.03 cm (2 in.)
overall (diameter of compositional field, to innermost raised rim): 4.17 cm (1 5/8 in.)
gross weight: 25.66 gr (0.057 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.540

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on scroll across top: IVDICIO.PARIDIS.ICLITA [for INCLITA, but with no mark of ellipsis].TROIA.IASET [for IACET]. (The Judgment of Paris brings on the fall of Troy)

Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory number 368 in red paint (Dreyfus collection).

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, 406.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 117.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:270, under Variante E, M.59, 271 fig. f, as after the Master IO.F.F.