Lamp, Upper Portion

c. 1800/1899

Anonymous Artist

Sculptor

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gilded bronze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (outer lip of cup to opp. circum.): 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
    overall (depth): 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.150.a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

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Bibliography

1908

  • A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 68, repro.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 193, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63809173

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