Winged Child Carrying a Torch, 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G14

Medium

bronze//Black lacquer (rubbed on torso) over red-brown bronze, copper base filled with lead

Dimensions

overall: 10.6 x 3.4 x 3.5 cm (4 3/16 x 1 5/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
accessory size (height): 2.4 cm (15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.51

Artists / Makers

Roman 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D. (sculptor)

Image Use

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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: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 52, no. 42, pl. 26.

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: 139, as Standing cupid by Italian 16th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 460.

1970: Gazda, Elaine K., and George M.A. Hanfman. "Ancient Bronzes: Decline, ...," in Art and Technology; a Symposium on Classical Bronzes. eds. Doeringer, ... Cambridge and London, 1970: 254-256, 257, fig. 18.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 84-85, no. 39.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 108, repro., as Hellenistic or Roman 2nd Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.