1953.4: Hercules

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1953.4

People

Unidentified Artist
Possibly by Ciechanowiecki Master, Italian
Possibly by Fitzwilliam Museum Master, Italian

Title

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

C. Ruxton Love, 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

Permissions

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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

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