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Shallow bowl with Hercules overcoming Antaeus
Giorgio Andreoli1520
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Shallow bowl with Hercules overcoming Antaeus
- Creator: Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio
- Date Created: 1520
- Physical Dimensions: overall (diameter): 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: "In the possession of Signor Marnelli," in 1873.[1] Alessandro Castellani [1823-1883], Rome; (his sale, Paris, 27-29 May 1878, no. 59); purchased by Victor Gay, Paris, for 15,000 francs.[2] Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris; (his estate sale, at his residence by Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, no. 1196, sold for 18,500 francs). Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942. [1] Fortnum, C. D. E., _A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica...in the South Kensington Museum_, London, 1873: 196, no. 7. [2] The piece was not included in the Gay sale in Paris of 1 June 1880 (_Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité... composant la collection de M. de L***_). [3] Widener collection records in NGA curatorial files.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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