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Borstbeeld van een kind
anonymous, c. 1500
Bust of a child. Bronze. Florence or Padua, c. 1500.
- Artwork typesculpture
- Object numberBK-16940
- Dimensionsheight 17 cm x width 12.5 cm x depth 8.2 cm
Identification
Title(s)
Borstbeeld van een kind
Object type
Object number
BK-16940
Description
Het hoofd met licht golvend haar is iets naar links gewend, de mond niet geheel gesloten. Halverwege de rechterschouder loopt een gedrapeerd kledingstuk schuin af naar rechts. In de schedel een ronde opening.
Creation
Creation
- sculptor: anonymous, Florence
- sculptor: anonymous, Padua
Dating
c. 1500
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Material and technique
Dimensions
height 17 cm x width 12.5 cm x depth 8.2 cm
Acquisition and rights
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Provenance
…; collection Gustave Dreyfus (1837-1914), Paris, before 1930;{Ricci 1931, no. 45; note RMA.} ? sold by his heirs with the entire Dreyfus collection to the dealer Duveen, London, New York, and Paris, 1930;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series I. Business Records. Series I.D. General Business Records: Dreyfus Collection stock, 1930-1931, image 144, no. 90.; Mayer 1931, p. 11.} from whom, $15,000, with BK-16947 and one other object, to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1932;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series II.I, Collectors’ files: Mannheimer, F., ca. 1924-1948, image 136, no.2, invoice to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 24 August 1932.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960
Remarks
Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Documentation
G. Migeon, 'La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus (Peinture, Bronze)', Les Arts, 73 (1908), p. 23.
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