Mars Surrounded by Trophies
late 15th - early 16th century
Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Dark brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 6.46 cm (2 9/16 in.)
gross weight: 48.05 gr (0.106 lb.) -
Accession
1957.14.310
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
1836
Delaroche, Paul, Henriquel Dupont, and Charles Lenormant, eds. Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique, ou Recueil général le médailes, monnaies, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs, etc.. tant anciens que modernes, les plus intéressans sous le rapport de l'art et de l'histoire. 20 vols. in 19. Paris, 1834-1858: 19(1836):23, pl. 35, fig. 3.
1886
Molinier, Émile. Les Bronzes de la Renaissance. Les Plaquettes; Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1886:, 1:141-142, no. 188.
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol. II, 142, no. 186, pl. 60.
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: 152.
1964
Pope-Hennessy, Sir John. "The Italian Plaquette." Proceedings of the British Academy I (1964): 71, pl. 6, fig. a. Reprinted in The Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture. Princeton, 1980: 201, fig. 14 (as trial cast).
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 44, no. 140, fig. 166.
1966
Montagu, Jennifer. "Plaquettes Revealed" Apollo 83 (March 1966): 229.
1987
Lewis 1987, 81, 94 note 21.
1989
Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Study of Italian Plaquettes." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 27, fig. 22.
Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 122, 136, note 170; 140, no. I.21.
Inscriptions
around top circumference: .M[ARS].VICTORIA.FVNCTVS (Mars having accomplished victory); beside figure's head, in monogram, now almost effaced: M[ODERNVS] F[ECIT] (Moderno made this) [1]
Markings
Three narrow, raised parallel striations applied in wax on reverse, apparently as cast-in coding mark(?). Reverse bears former inventory numbers 144 (Dreyfus) in red paint (with other, now illegible, marks in the same medium) and 186 in yellow paint (Ricci 1931).
Wikidata ID
Q63815081