Centaur
[None known at this time.]
Possibly Alexandria [1];
With Jacob Hirsch (1874–1955), New York, by June 24, 1955 [2];
His estate, by November 23, 1955;
Bequest from the estate of Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Hirsch to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.
NOTES:
[1] According to Hirsch invoice dated November 23, 1955, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, this Hellenistic statue is from Alexandria.
[2] Jacob Hirsch, PhD. (1874–1955) was born in Munich, studied at Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome, and then founded a dealership in Munich in 1897. He moved to Lucerne in 1919 and founded Ars Classica in 1922. In 1931, he opened Jacob Hirsch Antiquities in New York. At some point, he also had a gallery in Paris. He handled coins and antiquities but also had his own collection. See Hadrien Rambach, “A List of coin dealers in nineteenth-century Germany,” in A Collection in Context. Kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer, ed. Henner Hardt and Stefan Krmnicek (Tübingen, Germany: Tübingen University Press, 2017), 69–70, hal-04345662. See also “Dr. Jacob Hirsch, 81, An Authority on Art,” New York Times, July 5, 1955, 29.
