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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