Amazon Preparing for Battle (Queen Antiope or Hippolyta?), or Armed Venus

model c. 1860/1872, cast by 1882

Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert

Artist, French, 1828 - 1893

Media Options

Skip thumbnail navigation
Back to thumbnail navigation
This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G3

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1987.25.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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).

Associated Names

Bibliography

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

FM: G. Servant

Wikidata ID

Q63861004

You may be interested in

Loading Results