About This Artwork

Francesco Bertos
Italian, active c.1693-1739

Allegorial Group of Victory Supported by Valor, 1700/10

Bronze
35 x 15 5/8 x 14 1/2 in. (88.9 x 39.1 x 36.8 cm)
Elizabeth R. Vaughan Fund, 1964.158

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

W. L. Hildburgh, “Some Bronze Groups by Francesco Bertos," Apollo XXVII, 158 (February 1938).

J. Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1964, vol. II, p. 662, no. 708, and vol. III, fig. 701.

Ettore Viancini, “Francesco Bertos,” Saggi e Memorie di storia dell’arte 19 (1994), p. 150, fig. 14.

Andrea Bacchi, La Scultura a Venezia da Sansovino a Canova (Milan: Longanesi, 2000), p. 699, fig. 244.

Ownership History

Collection of August Lederer. Blumka Gallery, New York, by 1964; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.