Le centaure Térée emportant un ours (The Centaur Thereus Carrying a Bear)

Emmanuel Frémiet, French, 1824 - 1910

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1861-1863

Bronze

Overall: 15 1/16 in. (38.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund

S.964.56

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, on base: E. Fremiet

Exhibition History

Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 1992.

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12, 1980.

Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 19, 1977.

Gifts of the Class of 1937, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 11, 1973.

Permanent Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 28, 1977-July 9, 1978.

Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.

Provenance

Gallery St. Charles, Monte Carlo; sold to M. R. Schweitzer (dealer), New York, New York, August 31, 1963; sold to present collection, 1963.

Catalogue Raisonne

Stanislas Lami Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'Ecole Francaise au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle (Paris, 1916), vol. II, p.410

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