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

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.