Shallow bowl with Hercules overcoming Antaeus
1520
Ceramist
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G10
Artwork overview
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Medium
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.330
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
"In the possession of Signor Marnelli," in 1873.[1] Alessandro Castellani [1823-1883], Rome; (his sale, Paris, 27-29 May 1878, no. 59); purchased by Victor Gay, Paris, for 15,000 francs.[2] Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris; (his estate sale, at his residence by Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, no. 1196, sold for 18,500 francs). Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] Fortnum, C. D. E., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica...in the South Kensington Museum, London, 1873: 196, no. 7.
[2] The piece was not included in the Gay sale in Paris of 1 June 1880 (Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité... composant la collection de M. de L***).
[3] Widener collection records in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1877
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1877.
1878
Exposition Universelle Internationale, Trocadéro, Paris, 1878.
1982
Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 41, repro.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018, no. 12
Bibliography
1873
Fortnum 1873, 196, no. 7.
1877
Beckwith, Arthur. Majolica and Fayence. New York, 1877: 78, fig. 20, repro. front and back.
1878
Exposition Universelle Internationale. Exh. cat. Trocadéro, Paris, 1878.
Darcel, Alfred. "Le moyen âge et la Renaissance au Trocadéro; XIV. Les faïences italiennes." Gazette des Beaux-Arts n.s., 18 (1878): 977.
1892
Molinier 1892, no. 160, pl. 19.
1896
Fortnum 1896, mark no. 91.
1933
Ballardini 1933-1938: 1: no. 100, figs. 96, 274, as Castel Durante lustered by Maestro Giorgio.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 59, as Gubbio (Maestro Giorgio Andreoli).
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 13, as Gubbio (Maestro Giorgio Andreoli).
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 118, no. 1, repro., as Gubbio (Maestro Giorgio Andreoli).
1988
Castelli, Patrizia. A rebours 1898-1988. Giuseppe Mazzatinti e l'archivio di Mastro Giorgio. Pisa and Gubbio, 1988: 113-114, nos. 3.16, 3.18.
Fiocco/Gherardi 1988-1989, 2:423, figs. 123, 124, 568.
1989
Rasmussen Jörg. The Robert Lehman Collection, 10. Italian Majolica. New York and Princeton, 1989: 198.
1993
Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 169-172, color repro. 170.
Inscriptions
in center of foot reverse: Maro Giorgio / da ugubio f. / .1520.[Maestro Giorgio Gubbio made it 1520] [reading of the "f" is uncertain]
Markings
Spitzer sale labels; typed Kann collection labels 2, 188, identifying the subject wrongly as the rape of Proserpine (now in object folder, NGA Curatorial Records)
Wikidata ID
Q62131078