Lot Essay
The Pluto was originally modeled by Anguier in 1652 as one of a series of seven gods and goddesses, each of whom was meant to represent an emotion, with Pluto as Melancholy.
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THE PROPERTY OF THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT FUTURE ACQUISITIONS
A BRONZE GROUP OF PLUTO AND CERBERUS
AFTER THE MODEL BY MICHEL ANGUIER, FRENCH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Details
A BRONZE GROUP OF PLUTO AND CERBERUS
AFTER THE MODEL BY MICHEL ANGUIER, FRENCH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
On a rectangular base inscribed in red paint CMA 81.79 and with gray inventory or customs stamps
9½ in. (24 cm.) high on base
AFTER THE MODEL BY MICHEL ANGUIER, FRENCH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
On a rectangular base inscribed in red paint CMA 81.79 and with gray inventory or customs stamps
9½ in. (24 cm.) high on base
Provenance
Gustav Lewy, sold Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, November, 1900, lot 189.
Hugo Oelze, Amsterdam, sold Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 23 April, 1968, lot 2.
With Edward Lubin, New York, 1981.
Gift of Barrie Morrison, 1981.
Hugo Oelze, Amsterdam, sold Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 23 April, 1968, lot 2.
With Edward Lubin, New York, 1981.
Gift of Barrie Morrison, 1981.
Literature
O. Raggio, 'Sculpture in the Grand Manner,' Apollo, November, 1977, pp. 364-375.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Bulletin, LXIX (June 1982), p. 167.
C.D. Ditner, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, PhD. dissertation (Case Western Reserve University) 1985, p. 166.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Bulletin, LXIX (June 1982), p. 167.
C.D. Ditner, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, PhD. dissertation (Case Western Reserve University) 1985, p. 166.
Exhibited
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Sechs Sammler Stellen Aus, Hamburg, 1961, no. 92, p. 41.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Year in Review, 1981,' Bulletin, LXIX (February 1982). no. 14, p. 78.
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art of the Bronze, 1982, no catalogue. Cleveland Museum of Art, The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture, 1988-1989, no catalogue.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Year in Review, 1981,' Bulletin, LXIX (February 1982). no. 14, p. 78.
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art of the Bronze, 1982, no catalogue. Cleveland Museum of Art, The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture, 1988-1989, no catalogue.
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