Meleager Slaying the Calydonian Boar
Unknown Italian, Italian
about 1500
Bronze
Overall: 3 11/16 × 3 11/16 × 3/16 in. (9.3 × 9.4 × 0.5 cm)
Weight: 255 g (0.6 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019
2016.64.57
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture: Plaquette
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
none
Course History
ARTH 84, Media and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture, Adrian Randolph, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12-July 28, 2002.
Renaissance and Mannerist Plaquettes and Medals from the Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19-November 21, 2013.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.73.
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. 155.
Provenance
Acquired by Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, date unknown; lent to present collection, 1993; given to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kress, Fig. 323, No. 377; Molinier 1886, I: no. 112-13; Spitzer 1890, no. 6 (as Melioli); Migeon 1904, no. 288-289; Middeldorf 1944, no. 260; Toderi and Vannel-Toderi 1996, no. 291 (as northern Italy); Bergbauer and Chedeau 2006, no. 4
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