Venus after the Bath, after Giambologna

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1937.13
People: Unidentified Artist
After Giambologna, Italian (Douai, Flanders 1529 - 1608 Florence, Italy)
Title: Venus after the Bath, after Giambologna
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 17th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230551

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Technique

Cast

Dimensions

25.9 x 9 x 9 cm (10 3/16 x 3 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
with base: 28.8 cm (11 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: integral base, painted: L.581.17
foundry mark: left side of base, cast in: [design of C with crown]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [H. O. Watson & Co., New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1909, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1937

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1937

Object Number

1937.13

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. 19, repr. p. 54, cklist p. 18

Exhibition History

Gothic To Baroque in Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 10/29/1960 - 12/31/1960

Verification Level

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1937.13: Venus after the Bath, after Giambologna