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Title: Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wallace Collection (London, England)
Subjects: Art Art objects
Publisher: London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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. Notless closely connected with this Hercules is a fine St. Sebastian,a statuette carved in boxwood, which is grouped with the smallbronzes of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. This admirable little work in the Wallace Collection is of thehighest celebrity. It was first mentioned by Bernardino Scardenone,who, in his work De antiquitate urbis Patavii describes a MHer-culeum buxeum Francisci argentarii Patavini then belonging toMarcantonio Massimo of Padua, and which had been carved byFrancesco da Sant Agata in 1521. (See Edmond Bonnaffe inGazette des Beaux - Arts, 1886, Yol. I, 202 ; C. von Fabriczy inRassegna $ Arte, January 1904 ; and Dr. Wilhelm Bode in theBurlington Magazine, May 1904.) Paduan. Early XVI Century. (See Plate No. 20.) 36. Statuette of bronze, on a pillar of red jasper, with a capital and base of gilt bronze.A Hermaphrodite, probably, like No. 37, taken from a bronzefound at Herculaneum or Pompeii. The bronze and its pedestal are Italian of the XVIII Century. 35 Gallery X
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Boxwood Statuette of Hercules, by Francesco da Sant Agata of Padua. Plate 20. H. == 97 in. 24-6 cm. Pa^e 124, GALLERY X., CASE A. 125 37- Statuette of bronze on a pillar of red jasper, with a capitaland base of gilt bronze. After a bronze found at Herculaneum and now in the NaplesMuseum. (Eoux et Barre, Herculanum et Pompei, pi. 37, p. 170.)The bronze and its pedestal are Italian of the XVIII Century. 38. Ivory Statuette. Hercules triumphant.Flemish. XVII Century. 39. Boxwood Statuette. Venus leaving the Bath. Copy, on the same scale, of the Bronze Statuette signed JohannesBologna Belga given by Giovanni da Bologna to the EmperorMaximilian II, and now in the Imperial Museum at Vienna. Seealso the bronze repetition of this same Statuette, No. 39 Gallery XIV. Italian or German. Late XVI or Early XVII Century. 40. Boxwood Statuette. A Pilgrim Saint.Flemish. First Half of XVI Century. 4-1, Boxwood Carving*- St. George delivering the Princessfrom the Dragon. German. Early XVI Century. 42.

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