Sleeping Nymph and Two Satyrs [reverse], 1505 or after

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G16

Medium

bronze//Light brown patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.) gross weight: 77 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.242.b

Artists / Makers

Pseudo Antonio da Brescia (artist) Venetian (?), active early 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left inscribed on altar: VI / RT / VS

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

1971: Dürer's Cities: Nuremberg and Venice, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1971, no. 100.

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018, no. 48

Bibliography

1998: Bekker, Gerd. Europäische Plaketten und Medaillen vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig, 1998: 57.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:126, under Variante D/1, M.29.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 37, 39 n. 15, 97.