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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.4
People
Possibly by Ciechanowiecki Master, Italian
Unidentified Artist
Possibly by Fitzwilliam Museum Master, Italian
Title
Resting Hercules
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228712

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
15.7 x 10 x 10.8 cm (6 3/16 x 3 15/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
with base: 17.5 x 10 x 10.8 cm (6 7/8 x 3 15/16 x 4 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Carlebach Gallery, New York]; C. Ruxton Love, Jr., New York, NY, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1953.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of C. Ruxton Love, Jr.
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gothic to Baroque in Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, exh. cat., Allentown Art Museum (Allentown, PA, 1960), no. 18, repr. p. 51, cklist p. 18
  • Jeremy Warren, Beauty & Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection, exh. cat., The Wallace Collection (London, 2010), pp. 54, 58, 59, repr. p. 58, fig. 2 (as Ciechanowiecki Master)

Exhibition History

  • Sculpture in Silver from Islands of Time, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 09/14/1955 - 10/16/1955; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 10/30/1955 - 11/20/1955; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 12/04/1955 - 12/25/1955; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 01/08/1956 - 01/29/1956; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 02/12/1956 - 03/04/1956; Lawrence Art Museum, 11/08/1956 - 11/21/1956
  • Gothic To Baroque in Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 10/29/1960 - 12/31/1960

Verification Level

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