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Panther

Place of OriginItaly or Netherlands
Dateabout 1575-1623
DimensionsH: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); L (of figure): 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)
MediumBronze
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1952.16
Not on View
Published ReferencesCatalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art, Sotheby's May 10-11, 1962, lot 138. Mentions TMA 1952.16 as in the Detroit Renaissance exhibition catalgoue.

Catalogue of the Collection of Works of Art, Sotheby's, London, April 9, 1962, lot 70, p. 24. (Mentions TMA 1952.16 as in the catalogue of the 1958 exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, p. 124, fig. 258.).

Rosenberg, Alexander P., Bronzes of the Italian Renaissance, New York, 1981, p. 19, (SC Paul Rosenberg).

Ducan, Sally Anne, Otto Wittmann: Museum Man for All Seasons, Toledo, 2001, table of contents.

Scholten, Frits, Willem van Tetrode, sculptor (c. 1525-1580): Guglielmo Fiammingo sculptore, Zwolle Uitgeverij Waanders b.v., 2003, fig. 33, p. 33.

Exhibition HistoryDetroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, 1958, no. 258, repr. p. 124.

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lively Arts of the Renaissance, 1960, no. 118, repr.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, 1975, no. 163.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Gespierd brons, de beeldeen van Willem Tetrode (c. 1525-1580), March 7-May 25, 2003, and New York, Frick Collection, Willem van Tetrode (c. 1525-1580), Bronze Sculptures of the Renaissance, June 23-September 7, 2003.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Bode, Wilhelm von, Italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance, v. III, pl. CCLVIII; Planiscig, L., Piccoli Bronzi, pl. LXXXVII. Cf. Planiscig, Leo, Piccoli Bronzi Italiani del Renascimento, Milan, 1930, pl. LXXXVII. (The figure reproduced here and in Bode, called a lioness, is almost, but not quite, identical with TMA Panther. See also Wallace Collection Sculpture Catalogue, 1931, no. S71 for a good discussion of various versions of this figure.)
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