A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A RIVER GOD
A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A RIVER GOD

ITALIAN, POSSIBLY VENETIAN, LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A RIVER GOD
ITALIAN, POSSIBLY VENETIAN, LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Depicted seated on a rockwork base and holding a shell gushing water, inscribed in red paint 62.124, losses
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
With Julius Böhler, Munich, 1962.
Literature
'The Year in Review, 1962,' Cleveland Museum of Art, XLIX (November 1962), no. 10, p. 205.
D. C. Ditner, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture from the Cleveland Museum of Art, PhD. dissertation (Case Western University), 1985, p. 136.
Exhibited
Cleveland Museum of Art, Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture, exh. cat., 1975, no. 17.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Collecting Drawings in England, 1987, no catalogue.
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Persistance of Classicism in Sculpture, 1988-1989, no catalogue.

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