Hercules and Antaeus
CultureGerman
Dateca. 1560-1570
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 3 1/8 inches (24.13 × 11.43 × 7.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. Leslie R. Samuels
Object number70-54
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Leslie R. Samuels (1900-1984), New York, by 1970;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.
Ralph T. Coe, “Small European Sculptures,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 48, 50, (repro.), as Hercules and Antaeus.
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), 103, (repro.), as Hercules and Antaeus.
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