Meleager on Horseback [reverse], late 15th - early 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 9.08 cm (3 9/16 in.)
gross weight: 269.11 gr (0.593 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.200.b

Artists / Makers

Italian 15th Century (artist)

Italian 16th Century (artist)

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

1886: Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886: 1:75-76, no. 112 , as by Melioli.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30, as by Melioli.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 59, no. 76, pl. 24, as Pseudo Melioli.

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: 144, pl. 68, as by Pseudo Melioli.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 104, no. 377, fig. 324.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 102, no. 22.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:142, under Variante A, M.19, fig. d, as by Sperandio (?).