Saint Jerome, c. 1500

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Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 6.45 x 4.95 cm (2 9/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
overall (inner dimensions of oval field): 4.75 x 3.6 cm (1 7/8 x 1 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 150.84 gr (0.333 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.408

Artists / Makers

North Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 315 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 284 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 2:78, no. 476, as Northern Italian, end of the fifteenth century, Saint Jerome.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 204, no. 284, pl. 86, as Northern Italian, about 1500.

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: 147, as Northern Italian, about 1500.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 102, no. 369, fig. 315, as Italian, fifteenth or early sixteenth century.