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Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Bari

Benedetto Brioscoearly 1490s

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

  • Title: Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Bari
  • Creator: Benedetto Briosco
  • Date Created: early 1490s
  • Physical Dimensions: diameter: 60.96 cm (24 in.)
  • Provenance: Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; purchased 1862 by Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; sold 1872 with Timbal's collection to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris;[1] his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc, London, New York, and Paris); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] Gaston Migeon, _Gustave Dreyfus, Vice-Président de la Société des Amis du Louvre: Notice lue à l'Assemblé générale annuelle de la Société des Amis du Louvre, le 5 Février 1929_, Paris, 1929: 5-6. [2] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files; the sculpture is listed as by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.
  • Rights: CC0
  • Medium: marble
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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