Hercules Slaying the Centaur Nessus
Unknown German, German
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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