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( 1577 - 1640 )

The Castiglione Hercules and Antaeus

circa 1620-1637

Bronze

41.3 cm (16 ¹/₄ inches)

Private collection, USA

Collection of Camillo Castiglioni, Vienna, sold by Frederik Müller & Co., Amsterdam, 17–19 November 1925, lot LXXX, sold for 9,100 Florins P.B.
Sammlung C. Castiglioni, sold by Huldschinsky, Berlin, 29 November 1930, lot 298, plate 76 (introduction and descriptions by Otto von Falke)
Elizabeth and Théodore Jensen Collection, Denmark (see Olsen 1961, pp. 103–04), sale A.B. R[asmussen], Copenhagen, 1963, lot 48
L. Planiscig, Sammlung Camillo Castiglioni, Wien: Bronzestatuetten und Geräte, Vienna, 1923, pl. 80
E. Zahle, ‘Italienske Statuetter i danske Samlinger’, Kunstmuseets Arskrift, 1929–31, p. 96

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