The Death of Lucretia, late 15th - early 16th century

Not on View

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 9.39 × 7.84 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
gross weight: 135.33 gr (0.298 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.338

Artists / Makers

Moderno (sculptor) Veronese, 1467 - 1528

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Number 12 crudely scratched on upper left corner of obverse. Reverse formerly bore previous catalogue number 237 in faint white paint (Molinier 1886), canceled with line of red paint, as well as former inventory numbers 189 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 214 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed in 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

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 214.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 176.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 113, no. 20.