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Horatio Cocles at the Bridge

Artist Vincenzo Camuccini (Italian, 1771 - 1844)
Dateca. 1810
MediumCharcoal, brown ink, and gray wash (heightened with white) on brown paper
DimensionsUnframed: 8 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches (22.53 x 38.74 cm)
Framed: 20 x 26 x 1 1/8 inches (50.8 x 66.04 x 2.87 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number44-29/9
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 59, as Horatius Cocles on the Bridge.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Horatius Cocles on the Bridge.

Provenance

“Niodot fils” [1];

Purchased from Johann Waldemar de Rehling Quistgaard (1877–1962), New York and Copenhagen, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.

NOTES:

[1] Niodot fils was probably a mounter of drawings; See Lugt Supplement 1961a

Published References

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), 198, (repro.), as Horatio at the Bridge.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 186-88, (repro.), as Horatius Cocles on the Bridge.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 109, (repro.), as Horatius Cocles at the Bridge.

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