About This Artwork
Capital with Man Fighting Lion (A) and Riding Griffin (B)c. 1180
Marble
23.5 x 44.5 x 17.8 cm (9 1/4 x 17 1/2 x 7 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1954.20
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Art Center (now Chazen Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin, 1970.
Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Decorative-Applied Art from Late Antiquity to the Late Gothic Style, 14 May – 14 July 1990, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 14 August – 14 October 1990, cat. 30.
Ownership History
R. Stora and Company, New York, by 1954 [according to Receipt X1190 in Registrar’s office]; sold to the Art Institute, 1954 [according to source cited above].