About This Artwork

Antonio Susini
Italian, active 1574-1624
After Giovanni da Bologna
Italian, 1524-1608

Lion Attacking a Stallion, 1600/20

Bronze
10 1/2 x 18 in. (26.7 x 45.7 cm)
Bessie Bennett Fund, 1964.157

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Leo Planiscig, Die Bronzeplastiken: Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wien (Wien, 1924), pp. 162, 163–65, no. 267, fig. 267.

Hans Weihrauch, Europäische bronzestatuetten 15.–18. Jahrhundert (Braunschweig, 1967), p. 221.

London, Heim Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture of the Baroque (1970), p. 20, no. 59.

Vienna, Schloss Schallaburg, Italienische kleinplastik, zeichnungen und musik der Renaissance, waffen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (1976), p. 112, no. 162.

Charles Avery, Giambologna (1529-1608): ein Wendepunkt der Europâischen Plastik (Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1978), p. 258, no. 174.

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Giambologna, 1529–1608: Sculptor to the Medici (1978), p. 190, no. 174.

Charles Avery, Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture (New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1987), pp. 59-61, no. 140.

Ownership History

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hollywood, California, before 1964 [according to copies of invoice and shipping receipt in curatorial file]. Michael Hall, New York, by 1964 [according to sources cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.