Pygmalion and Galatea with Venus

attributed to Franz Zächerle, Austrian, 1737 - 1801

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about 1771

Pearwood

Overall: 28 3/4 × 20 5/16 × 1 5/8 in. (73 × 51.6 × 4.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection; acquired through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange

2016.63.6

Geography

Place Made: Austria, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

On view

Course History

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020

GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020

GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021

GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021

GERM 13.01, Beyond Good and Evil, Veronika Fuechtner, Fall 2022

Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Winter 2023

Philosophy 23.01, Ethics and the Arts, Kenneth Walden, Winter 2023

History 10.02, Archival Research, M. Cecillia Gaposchkin, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

Aspects of Human Experience: Works from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 1998-March 14, 1999.

German and Austrian Sculpture in the Eighteenth Century, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1954.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2007-January 14, 2008.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-October 27, 2009.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 2004-February 20, 2005.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17, 2000-September 21, 2003.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20, 2011.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 3, 1999-August 1, 2000.

Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.

Publication History

Roger Arvid Anderson, The Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Medals, Medallions, Plaquettes and Small Reliefs, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper and Textiles, San Francisco: Roger Arvid Anderson (published privately), design by David L. Wilson, 2015, p. 272.

Provenance

Oscar Bondy (1870-1944), Vienna, Austria, before 1938; confiscated by Nazi forces; acquired for the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; recovered by the United States Fine Arts Commission; restituted to Elisabeth Bondy (1890–1974), after 1947, New York, USA; sold to Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York, USA, before 1960; sold Sotheby’s, New York, “European Works of Art from the Private Collection and gallery of the Blumka Estate,” 9/10 January 1996, lot no. 110; private collection Southern Germany; Neumeister Auction House, Paintings, Prints & Sculpture, Sale 300, lot 1149, Munich, Germany, July 1, 1998; Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, about 1998; lent to present collection, 1998; sold to present collection, 2016.

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