Hercules and the Lion
Object PlaceAustria
Medium/TechniqueTerracotta with polychromy
DimensionsHeight 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Credit LineH. E. Bolles Fund
Accession number56.143
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
NOTES:
[1] At the time of the sculpture's acquisition, Blumka Gallery was said to have acquired it "at the end of the war" from the Bondy collection. Attempts to identify this sculpture in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection, however, have not been successful.
Oscar Bondy, a Jewish businessman living in Vienna, had owned a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art, which was seized and expropriated with the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Blumka Gallery.
Unidentified artist, Italian (Florentine), 15th century
about 1480–1500
