A Dancing Faun

c. 1600

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G10

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.1 x 11.1 x 10.8 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.120

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rodolphe Kann [d. 1905], Paris. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 2 October 1908 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Provenance according to Widener files in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as A Faun, in Manner of Francesco da Sant' Agata.

1944

  • Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: fig. 204, as by Francesco da Sant'Agata.

1948

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 147, repro., as Manner of Francesco da Sant' Agata.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 155.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 99, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63809462

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