Apollo and Daphne

Not on View

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.) gross weight: 41 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.229

Artists / Makers

Master of the Orpheus Legend (artist) Italian, active fourth quarter 15th century

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.

Exhibition History

1989: Image and Word, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1989, no. 24.

Bibliography

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 76, no. 105, pl. 32.

1951: National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 148.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 88, no. 309, fig. 280, as Milanese, close to Caradosso.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:154, under Prototipo, M.3, as by the Master of the Cartouches (?).