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Inscription

around top circumference: IVLIANVS MEDICES; center: LVCTVS / PVBLICVS

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his heirs; purchased with the entire Dreyfus collection 9 July 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 31 January 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1957 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1989
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin, 1989, brochure no. 1.

Bibliography

1956
Walker, John. "The Nation's Newest Old Masters." The National Geographic Magazine 110, no. 5 (November 1956): 624, repro. 634.
1989
Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 29-30, fig. 28.
2007
Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 1:no. 286, repro.
2019
Caglioti, Francesco and Andrea de Marchi. Verrocchio: Master of Leonardo. Exh. cat. Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazaionale del Bargello, Florence, 2019: 158, fig. 1.

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