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Heracles

CultureEtruscan
Date4th century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 inches (19.05 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number49-76
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 103
Collections
Exhibition History

Master Bronzes from the Classical World, The Fogg Museum of Art, December 4, 1967-January 23, 1968; City Art Museum of Saint Louis, March 1-April 13, 1968; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 8-June 30, 1968, no. 183.

Provenance

With Ugo Jandolo, Rome, by 1949;

 

Purchased Jandolo, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.

Published References

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), 30.

 

David Mitten and Suzannah Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, exh. cat. (Mainz on Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1967), 179, cat. 183.

 

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), 40.

 

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), 120.

 

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), 14, fig. 36.

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