Hercules, Deianeira, and Nessus
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, Hotel de Sagan, Paris, 1913, no. 28.
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, May 12-June 23, 1959.
Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 85, as Hercules, Deianeira, and Nessus.
Adriaen de Vries (ca. 1556-1526): Imperial Sculptor, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, December 12, 1998-March 14, 1999; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, April 15-August 29, 1999; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 12, 1999-January 9, 2000, no. 15b, as Hercules, Nessus and Deianeira.
Purchased at his posthumous sale, The Notable Collection of the Art of the Italian Renaissance and French 18th Century Belonging to the Late William Salomon of New York City, American Art Galleries, New York, April 5, 1923, lot 422, through Miss R. H. Lorenz, by Henry Walters (1848-1931), Baltimore, MD, as by Adriaen de Vries, 1923-1931;
By inheritance to his wife, Sarah Wharton Green Walters (1859-1943), New York, Newport, RI and Wilmington, NC, 1931-1943;
Her posthumous sale, Art property from the Estate of the Late Mrs. Henry Walters, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, December 4, 1943, lot 1062, as by Adriaen de Vries;
With French and Company, New York, by November 28, 1944;
Purchased from French and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, exh. cat. (Paris: Emile Levy, 1913), 47, (repro.).
De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of the Art of the French Eighteenth Century and the Italian Renaissance Belonging to the Estate of the Late William Salomon; The Majority of the Paintings Purchased from René Gimpel and Wildenstein; and Many of the Rare and Antique Bronzes Purchased under the Auspices of the Eminent Antiquarian Jacques Seligmann of Paris; and a Description of Mr. Salomon’s Former Residence (New York: American Art Galleries, April 5, 1923), unpaginated, (repro.), erroneously as by Adrien [sic] de Vries, as Bronze Group Representing Hercules, Deianira [sic] and Nessus.
Art Property from the Estate of the Late Mrs. Henry Walters (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1943), 228-229, (repro.).
“Anatomy and Art,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 3, no. 1 (May 8-June 5, 1960): 25, 27, as Hercules, Deianeira, and Nessus.
Hans R. Weihrauch, Europäisch Bronzestatuetten, 15.-18. Jahrhundert (Brunswick, Germany: n.p., 1967), 358-59.
Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg, vol. 6 (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1969), 56, 75n12, as Herkules, Deianeira und Nessus.
Jaap Leuwenberg, ed., Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam: Staatsuitgevereij, ’S-Gravenhage/Rijksmuseum, 1973), 172, as Hercules bevridjt Deianeira van de Centaur Nessus (Hercules Rescuing Deianeira).
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1986), 123, (repro.), as Hercules, Deinira [sic] and Nessus.
Jürgen Schultze, Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II, exh. cat. (Essen, Germany: Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hügel, 1988), 155-57, (repro.), as Herkules, Nessus und Deïneira.
European Works of Art and Sculpture… (London: Sotheby’s, December 13, 1990), unpaginated, as A Bronze Group of Hercules, Nessus and Deianeira.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 32, 129, 159, (repro.), erroneously as “attributed to Adriaen de Vries,” as Hercules, Deianeira, and Nessus.
Frits Scholten, Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1999), 148, 150, 152n136, 152n137, (repro.), as Hercules, Nessus and Deianeira.
Jane Bassett, The Craftsman Revealed: Adriaen de Vries, Sculptor in Bronze (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2008).
