The Flagellation, late 15th - early 16th century

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Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 7.12 x 5.33 cm (2 13/16 x 2 1/8 in.)
gross weight: 54.19 gr (0.119 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.367

Artists / Makers

Milanese 15th Century (sculptor)

Milanese 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse formerly bore previous inventory number 243 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: 2:36, no. 383, as Paduan school.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): pl. 29, fig. 4, as Paduan school.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 179, no. 243, pl. 75, as Paduan school.

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: 145, as Paduan 15th Century.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 88, no. 307, fig. 276, as Milanese, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 93, no. 11, as Milanese, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

2006: Bergbauer, Bertrand and Catherine Chédeau. Images en relief: La collection de plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance. Paris, 2006: 79.

2011: Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:152, under Prototipo, M.12, as by Cristoforo Foppa, called Caradosso.