1943.1160: Falcon

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

Permissions

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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

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