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Fragment of a Relief Showing a Sacrifice to Hercules with a Nude Figure of Hercules, a Bull, and a Man with Two Boys

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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.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department