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Benedetto Briosco

Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Bari, early 1490s

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 15

Medium

marble

Dimensions

diameter: 60.96 cm (24 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1937.1.120

Artists / Makers

Benedetto Briosco (sculptor) Lombard, active 1477 - after 1514

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Inscription

around top circumference: .LVDOVICVS. .M. SF.DVX.BARI.

Provenance

Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; purchased 1862 by Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; sold 1872 with Timbal's collection to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris;[1] his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc, London, New York, and Paris); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] Gaston Migeon, Gustave Dreyfus, Vice-Président de la Société des Amis du Louvre: Notice lue à l'Assemblé générale annuelle de la Société des Amis du Louvre, le 5 Février 1929, Paris, 1929: 5-6.

[2] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files; the sculpture is listed as by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Robinson, John Charles, Sir
Timbal, Louis-Charles

Exhibition History

1932: Sculpture and Medals of the Renaissance from the Dreyfus Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 1932, as by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

1932: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1932, Sculpture no. 9.

2015: Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza. Milano al centro dell'Europa, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2015, no. 2a, repro.

Bibliography

1865: "Ludovic le More." Magasin Pittoresque 33 (1865): repro. 333 (engraving by Tamisier after drawing by Olivier Merson).

1904: Malaguzzi Valeri, Francesco. Gio. Antonio Amadeo Scultore et architetto Lombardo (1447-1522). Bergamo, 1904: 319.

1907: Vitry, Paul. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus: I. - La Sculpture." Les Arts 72 (December 1907): repro. 27, 32.

1909: Clausse, Gustave. Les Sforza et les Arts en Milanais 1450-1530. Paris, 1909: 117-118, 121, repro.

1913: Malaguzzi Valeri, Francesco. La Corte di Ludovico il Moro. 4 vols. Milan, 1913-1923: 1(1913), La vita privata e l'Arte a Milano nella seconda metà del Quattrocento:52, repro.

1925: Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. “La collection Gustave Dreyfus.” L’Amour de l’Art 6, no. 7 (1925): 245-256, esp. 254-256, repro. 252.

1929: Malaguzzi Valeri, Francesco. La Corte de Ludovico il Moro. 4 vols. Milan, 1929 [Reprint Nendeln Liechtenstein, 1970]: I: La Vita privata e l'Arte a Milano nella seconda metà del Quattrocento: 46, repro.

1932: Rowlandson, Benjamin, Jr. "The Dreyfus Collection. A Review of the Exhibition." Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum 1 (March 1932): 54-56.

1937: Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 27.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 218, no. A-9, as Lodovico Sforza, called Il Moro by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (or Omodeo).

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 253, repro. 223, as Lodovico Sforza, called Il Moro by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (or Omodeo).

1943: Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 283-304, esp. 300-301.

1944: Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 171-172, as by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

1948: Comstock, Helen. "Quattrocento Portrait Sculpture in the National Gallery, Washington." The Connoisseur 122, no. 309 (September 1948): 45-49, repro.

1949: Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 160, repro., as Lodovico Sforza, called Il Moro by Giocanni Antonio Amadeo.

1949: Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 179-180, note 37, repro. 120, as Lodovico Sforza, called Il Moro by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 145, as Ludovico Sforza, Called Il Moro by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

1966: Seymour, Charles. Sculpture in Italy, 1400 to 1500. Harmondsworth, 1966: 194-195, 248 n. 11, repro. 135A.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 129, repro., as Ludovico Sforza, Called Il Moro by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

1978: Dell'Acqua, Gian Alberto. "Gli Sforza e le arti." In Lopez, Guido, et al, eds. Gli Sforza a Milano. Milan, 1978: 105-181, esp. 131, repro.

1980: Caroselli, Susan. "The Casa Marliani and Palace Building in Late Quattrocento Lombardy." Ph.D. dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1980: 120-121, 226 n. 316.

1980: Roth, Anthony. "The Lombard sculptor Benedetto Briosco: works of the 1490s." The Burlington Magazine 122 (January 1980): 7-22.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 632, no. 988, repro., as Lodovico Sforza, Called Il Moro by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.

1990: Luchs, Alison. "Duveen, the Dreyfus Collection, and the Treatment of Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Examples from the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990): 31-33, repro.

1992: Röll, Johannes. "Benedetto Briosco." In Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by Günther Meissner. 87+ vols. Munich and Leipzig, 1992+: 14(1996):254.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 34, repro.

1994: Vigano, Antonio. "Il periodo Milanese di Benedetto Briosco e i suoi rapporti con i cognati Francesco e Tommaso Cazzaniga: nuove acquisizioni documentarie." Arte Lombarda 108/109 (1994): 145-146, 160 n. 56, repro.

2006: Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève, ed. Les sculptures européenes du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2006: 241, 243.