The Fall of Man [obverse]

1535/1574

Hans Reinhart the Elder

Sculptor, German, c. 1510 - 1581

Hans Reinhart the Elder

Attributed to

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On View

NGA, West Building, G-013-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gilded bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1957.14.578.a

Associated Artworks

The Crucifixion [reverse]

Hans Reinhart the Elder

1535

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, 444.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 434.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 148, no. 14.

1998

  • Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 160.

Inscriptions

around circumference: ET.SICVT.IN.ADAM.OMNES.MORIVNTVR.ITA.ET.IN.CHRISTVM.OMNES.VIVIFICABVNTVR.VNVSQVISQVE.IN.ORDINE.SVO; beneath main scene on scroll: IOANNS.FRIDERICVS.ELECTORDVXSAXONIEFIERI.FECIT

Wikidata ID

Q63815008

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