Hercules and Antaeus

Attributed to David Heschler (German, 1611 - 1667)

Date17th century

MediumIvory

DimensionsOverall: 5 3/8 × 4 1/4 × 1 3/16 inches (13.65 × 10.8 × 3.02 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky

Object number59-75/1

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 88, as Hercules and Antaeus.

The Gods of High Olympus and a Hero, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-March 20, 1983, no. 57, as Hercules and Antaeus.

The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, September 21- November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, January 24 - March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 24 – August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 6, 1992 – January 3, 1993, no. 43a, as Hercules and Antaeus.

Provenance

Jack (1897-1980) and Belle (1904-1987) Linsky, New York, by 1959;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

Published References

“Anatomy and Art,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 3, no. 1 (May 8-June 5, 1960): 25, 27, (repro.), as by the Flemish School, as Hercules and Antaeus.

Ralph T. Coe, “Small European Sculptures,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (1972): 522, (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, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 123, (repro.), as Hercules and Antaeus.

Christian Theuerkauff, “Fragen zur Ulmer Kleinplastik im 17./18. Jahrhundert: 1; David Heschler (1611 - 1667) und sein Kreis,” Alte und Moderne Kunst 190/191 (1983): 33-34, (repro.).

Oliver Phillips, The Gods of High Olympus (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 5, 15, (repro.), unattributed, as Hercules and Antaeus.

Christian Theuerkauff, Die Bildwerken in Elfenbein des 16.-19 Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1986).

Michael Vickers et al., Ivory: An International History and Illustrated Survey (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987).

Joy Kenseth, ed., The Age of the Marvelous, exh. cat. (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 1991), 267-68, (repro.), as Flemish, as Hercules and Antaeus.

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