Cacus Stealing the Oxen of Hercules

Moderno

Artist, Veronese, 1467 - 1528

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Kaiser Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 7.04 × 5.33 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
    gross weight: 86.96 gr (0.192 lb.)

  • Accession

    1984.73.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ellin Mitchell, New York); purchased 6 November 1984 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Lewis, Douglas. "The Plaquettes of 'Moderno' and His Followers." Studies in the History of Art 22 (1989): 110-111, fig. 4; 140, no. I.5.

2013

  • Leino, Marika. Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes. Oxford, 2013: 90, 91 fig. 56 (misidentified as Romano-Mantuan, Sacrifice to Cupid), 123, 149. 178, fig. 110.

Inscriptions

across top, in cast-in raised lettering: .O[PUS].MODERNI. (the work of Moderno)

Wikidata ID

Q63860978

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