The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon, 15th century

Not on View

Medium

bronze//Light brown patina

Dimensions

overall: 10.14 x 6.24 cm (4 x 2 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 106 gr (0.234 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.558

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Flemish 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Reverse bears former inventory numbers 417 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 424 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

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

1908: Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 32, repro., as German school.

1931: Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931: 278, no. 424, pl. 119, as Flemish.

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: 159, as Flemish.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 101, no. 364, fig. 314, as Italian, fifteenth or early sixteenth century.