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Antonio Maria Zanetti
1680-1757
Fragment of a Relief Showing a Sacrifice to Hercules with a Nude Figure of Hercules, a Bull, and a Man with Two Boys
8 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (225 x 266 mm)
Graphite on paper; border in pen and brown ink and gray wash.
1959.3:52
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
Notes
Preparatory for an engraving in "Delle antiche statue greche e romane, che nell'antisala della Libreria di San Marco, e in altri luoghi pubblici di Venezia si trovano," Venice, I, 1740; II, 1743.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered and inscribed at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "49 / Sagrifizio ad'Ercole B.R."
Associated names
Zanetti, Antonio Maria, 1706-1778.
Quantock, John, former owner.
Gunter, Randolph, former owner.
Quantock, John, former owner.
Gunter, Randolph, former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 100-102.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 178.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 33.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 178.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 33.
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