Arion Rescued by the Dolphin, late 15th - early 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 16

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 10.66 cm (4 3/16 in.)
gross weight: 175.4 gr (0.387 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.329

Artists / Makers

Moderno (sculptor) Veronese, 1467 - 1528

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse formerly bore faint trace of previous catalogue number 206 in thin white paint (associated design in Molinier 1886), canceled with line of red paint, as well as 161 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 205 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.

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

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 205.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 170.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 110, no. 38.

2003: Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:377 fig. 1, 378.