Herakles
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Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Hellenistic Art in Asia, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December 18, 1954–February 15, 1955, no. 2.
Possibly found in Beneventum, Italy [1];
With Sciortino, 1921 [2];
Lord Melchett [3];
With Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1946 [4];
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
NOTES:
[1] According to Cornelius Vermeule, “30. Antiochus IV Epiphanes as Herakles” in: Arielle Kozloff – David Mitten, The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze (Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988), 175.
[2] Offered to John Marshall (1862–1928) by Sciortino in 1921. John Marshall Archive, British School at Rome, cardfile B.II.63.
[3] This may have been either Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett (1868–1930) or his son Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett (1898–1949).
[4] 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.
“An Exhibition of Classical Art,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 21 (1927): 9.
Francis Robinson, “Seleucus IV as Heracles: A Hellenistic Bronze in Kansas City,” The Art Quarterly 9 (Spring 1946): 178, 181.
“Enrichment of U.S. Museums,” Art News 45, no. 12 (February 1947): 40-60.
Fasti Archaeologici. Annual Bulletin of Classical Archaeology 2 (1947): no. 1841.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 24.
Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Hellenistic Art in Asia (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1954), no. 2.
Cornelius Vermeule and Dietrich von Bothmer, “Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain Part Two,” American Journal of Archaeology 60, no. 4 (October 1956): 338.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 34.
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), 45.
Cornelius Vermeule, Greek Art: Socrates to Sulla, from the Peloponnesian Wars to the Rise of Julius Caesar, Art of Antiquity, vol. 2, pt. 2 (Boston: Department of Classical Art, 1980), 74-75, 129, 239, plate 92A.
Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1981), 145, fig. 112.
Olga Palagia, “Imitation of Herakles in Ruler Portraiture. A survey, from Alexander to Maximinus Daza,” Boreas 9 (1986), 143.
Hans Günther Martin, Römische Tempelkultbilder, Studi e materiali del Museo della Civiltà Romana 12 (Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 1987), 97-98, fig. 24.
R. R .R. Smith, Hellenistic Royal Portraits (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 154.
Cornelius Vermeule, “30. Antiochus IV Epiphanes as Herakles” in The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze, ed. Arielle Kozloff and David Mitten (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988), 172-75, no. 30.
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), 24, 119, (repro.).
Renate Thomas, Eine postume Statuette Ptolemaios' IV. und ihr historischer Kontext. Zur Götterangleichung hellenistischer Herrscher. Trier Winckelmanns Programm 18 (Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2002): 1-108.
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), 15, fig. 38.
