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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1903.25
People
After Georges Liard Sr., French (active 1895-1913)
After Savelli Sperandio, Italian (Mantua c.1440 - 1528)
Title
Ercole d'Este I (1431-1505)
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medal
Date
c. 1902
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232221

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
245.46 g, 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Divus Hercules Ferrariae Ac Mutinae Dux Secundus Invictissimus [=Divine Ercole, second duke of Ferrara and Modena, most invincible; back: Opus Sperandei [=work of Sperandio]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Georges Liard, Sr., Paris, France, sold; to Horatio Greenough Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1903.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horatio G. Curtis
Accession Year
1903
Object Number
1903.25
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum, Charles Moore, and Horatio Greenough Curtis, Catalogue of Bronze Reproductions of Italian and French Medals of the Renaissance, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, c. 1903), p. 12

Verification Level

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