Hercules Slaying the Centaur Nessus

Unknown German, German

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about 1550

Bronze with gilding

Overall: 6 5/16 × 3 1/2 × 9/16 in. (16 × 8.9 × 1.4 cm)

Weight: 322 g (0.7 lb.)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019

2016.64.180

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Sculpture: Plaquette

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

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. 188.

Provenance

Trinity Fine Art Ltd., London, before 1995; their sale at Newhouse Galleries, New York, "Old Master Drawings and European Works of Art," May 1995, cat. 87; Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, by 2013; lent to present collection, 2013; given to present collection, 2016.

Catalogue Raisonne

Weber, No. 217, 4

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