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Venus Marina

CultureFrench
Dateca. 1550
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 22 × 5 × 5 1/2 inches (55.88 × 12.7 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number64-13
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

The French Bronze: 1500-1800, 1968, Knoedler Gallery, New York, no. 4, as Venus Marina.

The Gods of High Olympus and a Hero, February 15-March 20, 1983, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, no. 20, as Venus Marina.

Provenance

London art market [1];

With Edward R. Lubin, Inc., New York, by August 1963-1964;

Purchased from Edward R. Lubin by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.

NOTES:

[1] Ralph T. Coe, “Small European Sculptures,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 47.

Published References

“The Connoisseur’s Diary: Cellini’s Influence at the Court of François Ier: Harrogate Antiques Fair,” The Connoisseur 153, no. 618 (August 1963): 267, (repro.), as Venus Marina.

The French Bronze: 1500-1800, exh. cat. (New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1968), unpaginated, (repro.), as Venus Marina.

Ralph T. Coe, “Small European Sculptures,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 47-48, 50, (repro.), as Venus Marina.

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), 104, (repro.), as Venus Marina.

The Gods of High Olympus and a Hero, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 3, 10, 20, (repro.), as Venus Marina.

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