Hercules and Antaeus

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Hercules and Antaeus

Artist Stefano Maderno Italian, 1575-1636

Dateabout 1622

DimensionsH: 20 3/4 in. (52.7 cm)

MediumBronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1952.14

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23

Collections

Sculpture

Published ReferencesBode, Wilhelm, Die Italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance, Berlin, 1907, vol. II, pl. CIII, p. 9. ("Beleibter noch war der Kampf mit Antäeus; nennt doch Antico diese Gruppe die schönste aller Antiken. Gerade an diesen Meister gemahnt die vorzüglichste dieser Gruppen, von der zwei Exemplare im Mus. Nazionale in Florenz (Taf. CIII), andere im Palazzo Corsini zu Florenz, bei M. Hugel in Paris und sonst sich finden. Sie ist besonders geschickt aufgebant und von trefflicher Durchbildung. Auffalend bäurisch und plump ist daneben die kleine Gruppe des Museums in Cassel (Taf. CIII). Ein bravourstuck von ausserordentlicher Lebendigkeit ist der grössere Gruppe im Besitz der Comtesse de Béarn in Paris (Taf CIII), die kaum noch an die Antike erinnert.").

Cruttwell, Maude, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Dockworth & Co., London, 1907, (With reference to a terracotta group in Berenson's collection, a copy of an original by Antonio Pollaiuolo: "In the Collection of Comtesse de Béarn, Paris, is a bronze group closely resembling it, for which it has been suggested it may have been the study. It is unknown to me even by photograph.").

Bode, Wilhelm, Die Italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance, condensed edition, Berlin, 1922, p. 76, repr. p. 88.

Brinckmann, A.E., Barock-Bozzetti, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter, Verlags-Austalt A.-B., 1924, vol. 2, pp. 28-30. (Victoria and Albert terracotta after Maderna. Simiilar terracotta in Museo Archeologico, Venice, signed by Maderna and dated 1622. Says Dresden bronze after the Venice terracotta.) (TMA bronze similar to Dresden bronze in crossed arms of Hercules, but rougher in surface treatment.).

Maclagan, Eric, and Longhurst, Margaret H., Catalogue of Italian Sculpture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (published under authority of Board of Education, London, 1932, pp. 132-133.) (With reference to the V and A terracotta: "There is an alost identical group in bronze ((.525 m. high)) in the collection of the Comtesse de Béhague in Paris ((Bode-Murray Marks, pl. CIII...").

Robertson, Ian, "Three Works Ascribed to Stefano Maderna," Burlington, vol. V, October 1936, p. 181, repr. pl. IIb. ("...original bronze by Maderna in collection of Comtesse de Béarn, Paris") (The Victoria and Albert's Hercules is a stucco sketch by a Maderna pupil.) (Says Dr. Bode points out bronze (TMA) owes little to the antique - is independent.).

Ross, Marvin Chauncy, "Bronzes Ascribed to Stefano Maderna," Magazine of Art, vol. 30, December 1937, pp. 716-718. ("Mr. Ian Robertson, continuing the researches started by Brinckmann, published recently the bronze group of Hercules and Antaeus in the collection of the Countess de Béhague in Paris, which he attributed with more reason to the Milanese sculptor, for it is far finer in quality and much closer to the terracotta model than the Dresden bronze.").

Toledo Museum News, no. 141, January 1953, p. 2, repr.

Weltkunst, vol. XIII, May 1, 1953, no. 9, (Brief mention on p. 4).

Duveen Sculpture in America, New York, 1944, mentioned as in Béhague Collection under no. 226 (bronze, Huntington Art Gallery, California).

Rosenberg, Alexander P., Bronzes of the Italian Renaissance, New York, 1981, p. 34, 35. (SC Paul Rosenberg).

Rosenberg, Alexander P., Renaissance Bronzes and Later Sculpture, 1985, pp. 71, 73) (Sc Paul Rosenberg & Co.).

Alle origini di Canova: le terrecotte della collezione Farsetti, Venice, 1991, p. 131.

Exhibition HistoryCleveland Museum of Art, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, 1975, no. 159.Comparative ReferencesSee also Bode, Wilhelm von, Die Italianischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance, v. II, pl. Clll.; ditto, small new ed., p. 88.