The Entombment

late 15th - early 16th century

Moderno

Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze//Medium brown patina (much rubbed)

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10.14 × 6.78 cm (4 × 2 11/16 in.)
    gross weight: 141.15 gr (0.311 lb.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.295

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

1908

  • Migeon, Gaston. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, V: Les plaquettes." Les Arts 80 (August 1908): 19, figs. 4, 30.

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 134, no. 171, pl. 56.

1951

  • National Gallery of Art. Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. Washington, 1951: 151.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 47, no. 150, fig. 176.

1989

  • Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 118, 120-121, repro.

1998

  • Avery, Charles, Marzia Ratti, and Angela Acordon, eds. Sculture: bronzetti, placchette, medaglie. Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia. [Cinisello Balsamo], 1998: 273, no. 193.

2010

  • Pellegrini, Franca. "Il Moderno, Galeazzo Mondella detto, Seppellimento di Cristo." In Crescentini, Claudio, and Claudio Strinati, eds. La forma del Rinascimento: Donatello, Andrea Bregno, Michelangelo, e la scultura a Roma nel Quattrocento. Exh. cat. Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 2010: 262.

Markings

Reverse is inscribed with former inventory (and other?) numbers 3364 and 195 (?)/les 1 (unidentified collections; both in black ink), 129 in red paint (Dreyfus), and 171 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).

Wikidata ID

Q63815069

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