Allegorical Male Figure

Not on View

Medium

bronze//Medium brown patina

Dimensions

overall (oval): 4.6 x 3.9 cm (1 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.) gross weight: 21 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.523

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Bernardi (sculptor) Bolognese, 1494 - 1553

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

on scroll: OVE IO VEGGIO ME STESSO EL FALLIR MIO

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:, 2:13, no. 343.

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. 258-259, no. 389, pl. 110.

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: 157.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 16, no. 42, fig. 390.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 113, no. 14.

1989: Donati 1989, 232-234, pl. 108.