Hercules Carrying the Erymanthian Boar

c. 1575/1675

Anonymous Artist

Sculptor

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 44.5 x 17 x 25.5 cm (17 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.121

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Michel Boy [1844-1904], Paris and Versailles; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15-24 May 1905, no. 755)[1]. Purchased before 1915 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] This bronze sold on 23 May (copy of auction catalogue entry in NGA curatorial files).
[2] Edith Standen, the Widener curator, records that the sculpture was probably purchased early in the 20th century, by Peter A.B. Widener, who died in 1915. She had no record of it until it appears in an inventory she believed to have been compiled in 1918. The buyer in the 1905 Boy auction is unknown, but potentially was Widener, who owned another work from the Boy collection.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, not in cat. (shown only last two months of exhibition).

Bibliography

1845

  • Baldinucci, Filippo (ed.). Notizie die professori del disegno.... Florence, 1846: 568, 583.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as by Giovanni Bologna.

1944

  • Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: fig. 218, as by Giovanni Bologna.

1948

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 152, repro., as by Giovanni Bologna.

1959

  • National Gallery of Art. Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. Reprint. Washington, DC, 1959: 152, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 157, as by Giovanni Bologna.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 139, repro., as by Giovanni Bologna.

1978

  • Avery, Charles and Anthony Radcliffe, eds. Giambologna 1529-1608, Sculptor to the Medici. Exh. cat. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1978-1979: 125.

1992

  • Penny, Nicholas. Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day 3 vols. Oxford, 1992: I (Italian):53-54.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 31, repro.

1995

  • Ambrosio, Luisa and Fernanda Capobianco (eds.). la Collezione Farnese di Capodimonte: I bronzetti. Naples, 1995: 25.

2006

  • Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Dimitrios Zikos, eds. Giambologna. Gli dei, gli eroi. Genesi e fortuna di uno stile europeo nella scultura. Exh. cat. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 2006: 180.

Wikidata ID

Q63809181

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