About This Artwork
Francesco Fanelli (Attributed to)
Italian, active 1610-65
Centaur Abducting a Nymph, c. 1650
Bronze
8 1/4 in. (21 cm); base: 6 3/4 x 4 in. (17.2 x 10.2 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt, 1968.305
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, Diccionario histórico de los mas ilustres profesores de las bellas artes en España (Madrid, La Real Academia de S. Fernando, 1800), pp. 76-78.
John Pope-Hennessy, “Some Bronze Statuettes by Francesco Fanelli,” Burlington Magazine XCV, 602 (1953), pp. 157-62.
Costantino G. Bulgari, Argentieri, Gemmari e Orafi d’Italia: notizie storiche e raccolta dei loro contrassegni con la riproduzione grafica dei punzoni individuali e dei punzoni di stato (Rome: L. del Turco, 1958), p. 164-65.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1967–68, p. 20.
Anthony Radcliffe and Peter Thornton, “John Evelyn’s Cabinet,” The Connoisseur 197, 794 (April 1978), pp. 258-60.
For comparison, see:
Hans R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten (1967), p. 221.
Charles Avery, Giambologna (1529–1608): ein Wendepunkt der Europäischen Plastik (Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1978), pp. 147-60.
Ownership History
Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt (née Celia Schmidt), by 1968; given to the Art Institute, 1968.