Hercules and a Centaur, 1507 or before

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G16

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 6.69 × 5.47 cm (2 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 60.52 gr (0.133 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.316

Artists / Makers

Moderno (artist) Veronese, 1467 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left as frieze inscription on building, in cast-in raised lettering: O[PUS].MODER / NI (the work of Moderno)

Marks and Labels

Reverse formerly bore previous inventory numbers 159 (?) (unidentified collection), 105 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 192 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed during 1982 cleaning.

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:, 1:144, no. 195, repro. 145.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 145, no. 192, pl. 61.

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: 152.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 43, no. 136, fig. 155.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 108, no. 23.

1989: Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 110-111, fig. 5; 140, no. I.6.

2006: Bergbauer, Bertrand and Catherine Chédeau. Images en relief: La collection de plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance. Paris, 2006: 62.

2013: Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 123, fig. 72, 149.