A Knight of Santiago, c. 1570/1580

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

painted terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 71 x 53.2 x 27.6 cm (27 15/16 x 20 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.85

Artists / Makers

Francesco Segala (sculptor) Paduan, active 1558 - 1592

Image Use

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Provenance

Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc. London and New York), by 1936;[1] purchased 1941 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] The sculpture was lent by Duveen to a 1936 exhibition of works on the art market, held in Amsterdam.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Mackay, Clarence H.

Exhibition History

1936: Catalogue van de tentoonstelling van de oude Kunst, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1936, no. 1178.

Bibliography

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. 220-222, as Jacopo Contarini, by Alessandro Vittoria.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 198, repro., as Jacopo Contarini by Alessandro Vittoria.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 434, repro., as Jacopo Contarini by Alessandro Vittoria.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 173, as Jacopo Contarini by Alessandro Vittoria.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 153, repro., as Jacopo Contarini by Alessandro Vittoria.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 77.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 20, repro.

2001: Banzato, Davide. "Francesco Segala." In Augusti, Adriana, et al, eds. Donatello e il suo tempo: il bronzetto a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento. Exh. cat. Musei Civici, Padua, 2001: 321.

2008: Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 478.