Andrea Doria Guided by Neptune, c. 1541

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G16

Medium

bronze//Dark brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 8.7 x 7.5 cm (3 7/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.526

Artists / Makers

Leone Leoni (artist) Milanese, c. 1509 - 1590

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left: ANDR. PATRIS. AVSPICIIS[ET] / PROPRIO.LABORE

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, 392.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 75.

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 132, no. 18.

1997: Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 90.

2006: Thornton, Dora. "A Plaquette by Leone Leoni Acquired by the British Museum." The Burlington Magazine 148:1245 (December 2006): 828 n. 7.