Madonna and Child with Two Angels, second half 15th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

gilded bronze//Excluding flesh areas of figures

Dimensions

overall (minimum width across central pilaster shafts): 19.35 × 9.08 cm (7 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
overall (maximum width across wings of angels): 19.35 × 11.35 cm (7 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 740.2 gr (1.632 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.392

Artists / Makers

Florentine 15th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears number 425 in white paint (Molinier 1886), and former inventory numbers 294 in red paint (Dreyfus), 268 in (mostly missing) yellow paint (Ricci 1931), as well as earlier-style NGA accession number in red paint.

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: 2:55, no. 425.

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 30, repro.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 194, no. 268.

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: 146, repro 72.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 81, no. 281, fig. 25.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 25, no. 1.