Neptune with a Hippocamp

model 1652, cast probably 1652/1680s

Michel Anguier

Sculptor, French, 1612 - 1686

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G10

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (height): 51.5 cm (20 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.41.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Art market, southern France. (Guy Ladrière, Paris); purchased 16 April 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2008

  • Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 480 n. 57.

2009

  • Moureyre, Françoise de la. "La Junon en pierre de Michel Anguier retrouvée. Nouvelles considérations sur les 'dieux et déesses'." La Tribune de l'Art (16 June 2009, accessed online; https://www.latribunedelart.com/la-junon-en-pierre-de-michel-anguier-retrouvee-nouvelles-considerations-sur-les-dieux-et-deesses).

Wikidata ID

Q63861966

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