Infant Bacchants with Pipes, a Vase, and a Mask of Silenus
c. 1465/1471
Artist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 4.84 x 8.73 cm (1 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
gross weight: 83.34 gr (0.184 lb.) -
Accession
1942.9.190
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1897
Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 93, no. 203 (plaquette no. 63), as style of Donatello.
1908
A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 94, repro., as style of Donatello.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.
1994
Dempsey, Charles. “Lorenzo’s Ombra.” In Lorenzo il Magnifico e il suo mondo. Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ed. Florence, 1994: 341–355, esp. 349, note 28, fig. 6, tentatively attributed to Bartolomeo Bellano, before 1471.
1997
Barstow, Kurtis. "'The Gualenghi-d'Este Hours': Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara." Ph.D dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1997: viii, 22-23, 213 fig. I.10.
2011
Rossi, Francesco. La collezione Mario Scaglia: placchette. 3 vols. Bergamo, 2011: 1:81, under Prototipo, C.11, as by the circle of Cristoforo di Geremia, and as part of the Hainauer Collection,
Markings
Reverse bears former inventory numbers P.63 (for plaquette no. 63) in black ink (Bode/Thieme 1897/1906) and 94. in white paint (Hainauer/Duveen 1908).
Wikidata ID
Q63810123