David, late 15th - early 16th century

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Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 50 x 17.4 cm (19 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.81

Artists / Makers

Master of the David and Saint John Statuettes (sculptor) Florentine, active late 15th century - early 16th century

Image Use

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Provenance

Louis Félix, vicomte de Nolivos [1805-after 1867], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 January 1866, no. 44); Eugene Piot [1812-1890], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 April 1870, no. 7);[1] Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1941 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] The early provenance was kindly provided by Marie-Amélie Carlier (e-mail of 12 October 2007 to Nicholas Penny, in NGA curatorial files).

[2] Purchase date by Kress Foundation according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, London, 1976: 42.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Drouot, Hôtel
Drouot, Hôtel
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Nolivos, Louis Félix, vicomte de
Piot, Eugène

Exhibition History

1932: Sculpture and Medals of the Renaissance from the Dreyfus Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932, as by Andrea del Verrocchio.

1938: Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 69, repro.

Bibliography

1907: Vitry, Paul. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus: I. - La Sculpture." Les Arts 72 (December 1907): repro. 18, 24.

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. 136-138, as David, Conqueror of Goliath, by Andrea del Verrocchio.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 42.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 148, repro.

2003: Verrocchio's David Restored. A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence. Exh. cat. National Museum of the Bargello, Florence; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Atlanta and Florence, 2003: 47-48, fig. 19.

2013: Miller, Stephanie. "Parenting in the Palazzo: Images and Artifacts of Children in the Italian Renaissance Home.“ In Erin J. Campbell, Stephanie R. Miller, and Elizabeth Carroll Consavri, The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, 2013: 67-88, esp. 81-82, repro. 82.