Farnese Hercules, c. 1550/1599

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 56.8 x 27.3 x 25.4 cm (22 3/8 x 10 3/4 x 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Stanley Mortimer

Accession Number

1960.10.1

Artists / Makers

Florentine 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Stanley Mortimer [1897-1984], New York, and Litchfield, Connecticut;[1] gift 1948 to NGA.

[1] Stanley Mortimer probably inherited the sculpture from his father, also Stanley Mortimer, who was a portrait painter and who in the 1890s built a sixty-room English Tudor manor house on his estate on Long Island and filled it with Renaissance art. (See Steven M.L. Aronson, "A Life in the Country: Patrician bohemians Barbara and Stanley Mortimer look back on a charmed circle of family and friends," House and Garden [April 1984]: 165-171, 230, 232.)

Associated Names

Mortimer, Stanley

Exhibition History

2017: Rubens: The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, 2017-2018.

Bibliography

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 155.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 138, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 87, repro.