Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Francesco Fanelli, born 1577, Italian, active in Britain (from ca. 1632)
Title:: St. George and the Dragon
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze, on a later wooden base with tortoiseshell veneer and gilt bronze mounts
Dimensions:: Overall: 11 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 8 inches (29.2 × 29.2 × 20.3 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B2012.4
Gallery Label:: In the early seventeenth century, the Italian taste for tabletop bronzes reached England, where they were collected avidly by connoisseurs at the English court. When the Florentine sculptor Francesco Fanelli came to London in the early 1630s, King Charles I gave him a pension and began collecting his small mythological bronzes. A version of this group was displayed in the king’s most treasured space, the Cabinet Room at Whitehall Palace. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)