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Venetian 17th Century, partly after a model by Tiziano Aspetti

Andiron with Figure of Venus, c. 1600/1675

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 103.4 x 56.3 x 40.2 cm (40 11/16 x 22 3/16 x 15 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.101

Artists / Makers

Venetian 17th Century (artist)

Tiziano Aspetti (artist) Italian, 1557/1559 - 1606

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Provenance

Baron Adolphe de Rothschild [1823-1900], Paris; Baron Maurice de Rothschild [d. 1957], Paris; Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York by 1925;[1] (Jacques Seligmann & Cie., New York); purchased 1948, probably through (French & Co., New York),[2] by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Published by Valentiner in 1925 and 1926 as in the Mackay collection and as having come from the Rothschild collection.

[2] After Mackay's death his collection was dispersed by Seligmann; records from the Kress Foundation, now in NGA curatorial files, indicate that French and Co. was involved in the 1948 acquisition.

Associated Names

French & Company LLC
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Mackay, Clarence H.
Rothschild, Adolphe de, Baron
Rothschild, Maurice de, Baron
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

Exhibition History

1958: Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1958-1959, no. 262.

1961: Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962, no. 121, as by Jacopo Sansovino.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, brochure, no. 1.

Bibliography

1925: Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "The Clarence H. Mackay Collection." Art in America 13, no. 9 (1925): 320, as by Sansovino.

1926: Valentiner, W.R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: 15, no. 28, as by Sansovino, repro.

1965: Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 125-126, no. 465, repro. fig. 570.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 171, as by Jacopo Sansovino.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 150, repro., as by Jacopo Sansovino.

1970: The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue: III: Sculpture, Italian. Princeton, 1970: 183-184 (entry by John Pope-Hennessy, assited by Anthony Radcliff).

1983: Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 139.

1992: Penny, Nicholas. Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day 3 vols. Oxford, 1992: I (Italian): 312.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 41, repro.

2001: Kryza-Gersch, Claudia. "Original Ideas and Their Reproduction in Venetian Foundries: Tiziano Aspetti's Mars in the Frick Collection - A Case Study." In Small Bronzes in the Renaissance. Debra Pincus, ed. Studies in the History of Art 62, Symposium Papers 39 (2001): 156 n. 25, 156-157 n. 33.

2001: Kryza-Gersch, Claudia. "Tiziano Aspetti, Venere e Cupido dormiente." In Augusti, Adriana, et al, eds. Donatello e il suo tempo: il bronzetto a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento. Exh. cat. Musei Civici, Padua, 2001: 351.

2003: Krahn, Volker. Bronzetti Veneziani. Die venezianischen Kleinbronze der Renaissance aus dem Bode-Museum Berlin. Berlin, 2003:154.

2008: Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 466, 467 fig. 11.