Lion Devouring a Horse

1600/20

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

On View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 205

Artist: Antonio Susini
Title: Lion Devouring a Horse
Origin: Italy
Date: 1600–1620
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 26.7 × 45.7 × 27.9 cm (10 1/2 × 18 × 11 in.)
Credit Line: Bessie Bennett Fund
Reference Number: 1964.157

Charles AVery and Anthony Radcliffe, Giambologna 1529—1608. Sculptor to the Medici, exhib. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978, p. 190, under no. 174.

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hollywood, California, before 1964 [receipt in registrar’s office gives Michael Hall’s address as c/o Mrs. Charles Laughton, Los Angeles, Hall possibly as an agent for Elsa Lanchester.] Michael Hall, New York, by 1964 [source cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.

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