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Cacus steals the cattle of Hercules
Lost Art-ID
592248
Artist / Creator
Moderno
Place of activity
Rom, Padua, Venedig, Como?
First mentioned
1486/1515
Title
Cacus steals the cattle of Hercules
Dating
1470/1520
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Bronze) / cast
Width
5.00 cm
Diameter
7.00 cm
Description
Bange-WV, Nr.: 482 (Α. N. 776. Inv. 1091.) Titel: Cacus stiehlt die Rinder des Herkules. While Hercules has fallen asleep on the right side of the floor, Cacus tries to pull a cow by the tail into his cave. A second one appears behind it. In the distance a wood in the right hand side. Above in raised letters: O. MODERNI. Half relief. Bronze. H. 7, Br. 5 cm. Pierced above the inscription;
Planiscig, 1936, Nr. 54: Titel: Cacus stiehlt die Rinder des Herkules,bronze plaque, in a wide frame. Diameter: 11'9 cm
Provenance
acquired 1880 in Florence with the Bardini Collection; Collection Erich Lederer, Vienna (1936); to Johann Baptist Gudenus, Vienna for safekeeping (until 1945 - looted during the last days of the war); [...]; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Molinier, Les plaq. Nr. 194 (Abb.); E. L. Bange, Die italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, 2. Teil: Reliefs und Plaketten, Berlin 1922, Nr. 482, Abb. Tafel 47; Leo Planiscig, Ernst Kris, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Juni-Juli 1936, Nr. 54 (Sammlung L., Wien); Sophie Lillie, Klimt's Women Collectors: The Pulitzer Sisters Szerena Lederer, Jenny Steiner and Aranka Munk, Diss. Wien, 2014, S. 197
Published since
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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