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Centaur Abducting a Nymph
Francesco Fanelli · c. 1650
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt (née Celia Pruzan), by 1968; given to the Art Institute, 1968.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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