Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Medium brown patina
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1957.14.540
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, 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.
Inscriptions
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)
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory number 368 in red paint (Dreyfus collection).
Wikidata ID
Q63814891