Hercules and Lichas
Artist After
Antonio Canova
(Italian, 1757 - 1822)
Dateca. 1834
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 16 3/4 × 10 3/4 × 8 inches (42.55 × 27.31 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust (by exchange)
Object number89-30
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Pierre Fontaine foundry, Paris;
Purchased from Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1989.
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), 201, (repro.), erroneously as by Antonio Canova, as Hercules and Lichas.
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), 112, (repro.), as Hercules and Lichas.
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