Plate with Hercules and Omphale

1551

Sforza di Marcantonio

Ceramist, Italian

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 17

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin; by inheritance to his widow, Julie Hainauer [1850-1926], Berlin; purchased 1906 with the entire Hainauer collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 17 October 1906 to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[1] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series I.D, General business records, 1907-1964, reel 59, box 163, Hainauer collection sales ledger, July 1906-December 1909; copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1897

  • Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 38, 116, no. 340 (M60).

1925

  • Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 261, no. 60.

1955

  • Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 85.

1986

  • Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 166-167, no. 66, repro.

Inscriptions

center reverse: se ridussi Afilar e / rchol si forte 1551 (He was reduced to spinning, Hercules so strong 1551); around circumference reverse, Hainauer catalogue number: M.60.

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