Centaur Abducting a Nymph

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1650

Attributed to Francesco Fanelli (Italian, active 1610-1665)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Francesco Fanelli
Title: Centaur Abducting a Nymph
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1645–1655
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H.: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); Base: 17.2 × 10.2 cm (6 3/4 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Siegfried Schmidt
Reference Number: 1968.305
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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.

Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt (née Celia Pruzan), by 1968; given to the Art Institute, 1968.

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