A Nymph on a Dolphin

Francesco Marti

Sculptor, Lucchese, active 1489/1516

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Light brownpatina

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.) gross weight: 47 gr

  • Accession

    1957.14.572

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

Exhibition History

2004

  • Matteo Civitali e il suo Tempo: Pittori, scultori e orafi a Lucca nel tardo Quattrocento, Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca, 2004, no. 5.15, repro.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 438.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 77.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 28, no. 1.

Inscriptions

lower left in exergue: .F.MAR.

Wikidata ID

Q63814984

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