About This Artwork
French (Paris)
After a lost model by Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822
Hercules and Lychas1850/1900
Bronze
41.9 x 28.5 x 19.7 cm (16 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society in honor of John Maxon, 1977.525
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, "Canova and France," 15 January - 20 February 1985 [no cat.].
Art Institute of Chicago, "A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago," 12 November 1986 - 4 January 1987, no. 20.
Publication History
R. Weihrauch Hans, Europaische Bronze Statuetten 15-18 Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1967), pp. 436-37.
Philip Fehl, "Canova's Hercules and Lychas: Notes Regarding a Small Bronze in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin VIII, 1 (1968), pp. 3-26.
Bernard Black, "Canova's lost model for Hercules and Lichas preserved in bronze: The definitive French casts, the copies and confusions," Apollo 102, 463 (September 2000), pp. 13-21, fig. 9.
Ownership History
M. Jean-Pierre Selz, Paris, by 1977 [according to Receipt X11383 in Registrar’s office]; sold to the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977 [according to source cited above]; given to the Art Institute as a gift in honor of John Maxon, 1977.