An Allegorical Scene, 16th century

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G13-A

Medium

bronze//Very dark patina

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 8 cm (3 1/8 in.) gross weight: 192 gr

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1957.14.575

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

across top on scroll: NOM / DOM / INI MA / [n]E[t]IN.AE / T / RNVM H:M O.

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, 441.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 441.