Bull Statuette

between late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE

Roman

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Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Bull Statuette

Artwork Date between late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Roman

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 6 13/16 × 6 1/2 × 3 5/16 inches (17.3 × 16.5 × 8.4 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 45.120

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Provenance

1905, sold by Guilhou (Paris, France). J.P. Morgan (New York, New York, USA). (Piero Tozzi)

1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

A. Sogliano in Notizie degli Scavi... vol. 24 (1899), pp. 392 ff., especially p. 395; ill. p. 395, fig. 6. Found in 1899 in a villa in the "fondo di Matteo Acanfora in contrada Spinell," near Scafati, in the bicinity of Bosco Reale and Pompeii.

Furtwängler, A. "Römisch-ägyptische Bronzen, I, Apis," Bonner Jahrbücher, Bonn, Heft 107 (1901): pp. 37-45, p. 40.

Heft 108/109 (1902): pp. 239-240.

Heft 114/115 (1906): pp. 199-201, pp. 200-201.

Théatès, O. "Les Artistes Animaliers," Le Musée, Revue d'art mensuelle, vol. 5 (1908): p. 26, (ill.) p. 25. [as from Boscoreale and in collection of Pierpont Morgan].

Reinach, Salomon. Repertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. 4. 1910. Reprint ed. 1913, p. 485, no. 5, (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. Small in Size Great in Art, Detroit Institute of Arts Picture Book. Detroit, 1946, p. 6 (ill.).

Robinson, F.W. An Exhibition of Small Bronzes of the Ancient World. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March-May 1947, p. 12, no. 88, and (ill.) p. 45, (fig. 88).

Property of the Estate of the Late J.P. Morgan. Sales. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. New York, March 22-25, 1944, p. 25, no. 110.

Richardson, E. P. and F. W. Robinson. "Recent Acquisitions of Ancient and Medieval Art," Bulletin of the DIA 31, no. 3/4 (1951–1952): p. 70 (ill.).

Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin vol. 11, no. 3 (1954): p. 151, no. 10, (ill.). [Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio].

Master Bronzes from the Classical World. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, 1967, p. 289.

Boulter, P. A. "A Bronze Bull in Cincinnati." In Studies in Classical Archaeology, Locust Valley. New York: J. J. Augustin, 1979, pp. 251, note 1, p. 252, pl. 67, no. 5.

"Family Art Game," Detroit Free Press (May 18, 1986): p. 24 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

Kaufmann-Heinmann, Annemarie. Götter und Lararien aus Augusta Raurica: Herstellung, Fundzusammenhänge und sakrale Funktion figürlicher Bronzen in einer römische Stadt. Basel, 1998, p. 226.

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