Amazon Preparing for Battle (Queen Antiope or Hippolyta?), or Armed Venus, model c. 1860/1872, cast by 1882

bronze

overall: 65.3 x 40.6 x 26.6 cm (25 11/16 x 16 x 10 1/2 in.)

1987.25.1

Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert (artist) French, 1828 - 1893

incised, probably in the foundry model, on top of base near left foot: EMILE HEBERT; cold-stamped, on rim of base at rear: Servant's foundry cachet

FM: G. Servant

Private collection, New York, by early 1987; (Pegasus Fine Arts, New York), by May 1987;[1] purchased 29 May 1987 by NGA.

[1] Dealer's information sheet (in NGA curatorial files).

Pegasus Fine Arts
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 107, repro.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 277-285, color repro.