Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 5.17 x 5.07 cm (2 1/16 x 2 in.)
gross weight: 45.09 gr (0.099 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.220

Artists / Makers

Caradosso Foppa (artist) Milanese, c. 1452 - 1526/1527

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears faint traces of former inventory number: pigment removed in 1982 cleaning, but chemical “ghost” traces remain visible.

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

1876: Guiton, Gaston. "La porte de Crémone: le monument." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2d ser., 13 (February 1876): 329 repro., 330.

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:102–105, no. 150, repro. 103.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 27, repro. 18.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 70, no. 96, pl. 30.

1951: Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 148.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 18, no. 48, fig. 76.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 98, no. 6.

1993: Meller, Peter. "Bronzetti del Caradosso?" In Shell, Janice and Liana Castelfranchi, eds. Giovanni Antonio Amadeo: Scultura e architettura del suo tempo. Milan, 1993: 537–538, 541, 552 fig. 5.

1997: Brown, Clifford and Sally Hickson. "Caradosso Foppa (ca. 1452–1526/27)." Arte Lombarda 119:1 (1997): 13–14, 21, fig. 3 (enlarged).

2006: Leino, Marika. "Italian Renaissance plaquettes and Lombard architectural monuments." Arte Lombarda nuova serie 146/148, 1-3 (2006): 119, 120 fig. 24.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:148, under Prototipo, M.7, 149 fig. a.