Hercules and Lychas

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1850/1900

Artist unknown (French, active 19th century)
After a lost model by Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822)

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

Artist: Antonio Canova
Title: Hercules and Lychas
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.: Cast 1850–1900
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 41.9 × 28.5 × 19.7 cm (16 1/4 × 11 1/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society in honor of John Maxon
Reference Number: 1977.525
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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.

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.

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.

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