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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1160
People
Unidentified Artist
School of Giambologna, Italian (Douai, Flanders 1529 - 1608 Florence, Italy)
Title
Falcon
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
16th-17th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229850

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
32.8 x 15.5 x 23 cm (12 15/16 x 6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
with base: 47.3 x 22 x 23 cm (18 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Medici family, Villa Reale, Castello (Florence). Professor Elia Volpi and his daughters; Pietro Tozzi, New York, sold; [to Brummer Gallery, New York, sold]*; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, February 1929, for $24,000; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

*The provenance until this point is summarized in a letter from Pietro Tozzi to Grenville Winthrop dated April 27, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1160
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bertha Harris Wiles, The Fountains of Florentine Sculptors and their Followers from Donatello to Bernini (Cambridge, Mass., 1933), fig. 144
  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 8
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 130, pp. 202-203, repr.
  • Victoria Kloss Ball, Architecture and Interior Design: A Basic History Through the Seventeenth Century, John Wiley & Sons (New York, NY, 1980), p. 275; repr. in b/w p. 275 as fig. 6.60

Exhibition History

  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011

Verification Level

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