David Triumphant over Goliath
1507 or before
Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina (rubbed on raised surfaces)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 10.63 cm (4 3/16 in.)
gross weight: 135.51 gr (0.299 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.286
Artwork history & notes
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
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. Vol.II, 162.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 141.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 108, no. 21.
2003
Avagnina, Maria Elisa, Margaret Binotto, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, eds. Pinacoteca civica di Vicenza: catalogo scientifico delle collezioni. Milan, 2003: 3:219.
2006
Bergbauer, Bertrand and Catherine Chédeau. Images en relief: La collection de plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance. Paris, 2006: 65.
2014
Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:840.
Markings
Reverse formerly bore previous reference number 158 in thin white paint (as cat. in Molinier 1886), as well as previous inventory numbers 121 in red paint (Dreyfus) and 162 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931); numerals removed in 1982 cleaning.
Wikidata ID
Q63815060