Abduction of a Sabine Woman, between 1600 and 1633

  • Giovanni da Bologna, Italian, 1529-1608

Bronze

  • 23 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 9 inches (60.3 x 31.1 x 22.9 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.199

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Dr. Fritz Goldschmidt (Berlin, Germany)

1921-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Valentiner, W. R. "New Period Rooms," Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 4 (January 1923): pp. 30-31, 27 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 3, no. 4, 1927, p. 40 Weihrauch, Hans R., Die Bildwerke in Bronze, Munich: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1956, p. 87 Mann, J.G., Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculpture, London, 1931, 2nd ed. 1981, p.43, no. S 113, pl. 31 A. P. Darr, P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.], Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 133

after a model by Giovanni da Bologna (by a northern follower), Abduction of a Sabine Woman, between 1600 and 1633, Bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.199.