River God
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Chisse collection, Paris;
Max Lyon (1854-1925), Paris, as La Source, as by Michelangelo, by 1914 [1];
With Dr. Max Hugo Oelze (1892-1967), Amsterdam, as by Alessandro Vittoria, by 1967;
His posthumous sale, Highly Important Objects of Art Forming the Late Dr. M. Hugo Oelze collection, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, April 24, 1968, lot 45;
With Edward R. Lubin, Inc., New York, by 1969;
Purchased from Edward R. Lubin, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1969.
NOTES:
[1] This sculpture was offered for sale by Lyon at The Important Collection of Works of Art Chiefly Italian of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Periods formed by M. Max Lyon, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, May 18-25, 1914, lot 94, as La Source, as by Michelangelo, with a provenance from the Chisse collection, Paris, but failed to sell, according to Jeffrey Pilkington, Christie’s Archives, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Provenance Specialist, August 2, 2018, NAMA curatorial files.
Catalogue of the Important Collection of Works of Art Chiefly Italian (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, 1914), 31, (repro.).
The Collection of the Late Dr. M. Hugo Oelze—Amsterdeam (New York: Edward R. Lubin, April 24, 1968), 45, as The rivergod.
Ralph T. Coe, “Small European Sculptures,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 53, (repro.), as River god.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 87, (repro.), as River God.
