Fowler or Bird Catcher

ca. between 1575 and 1600

Giovanni da Bologna, Artist Antonio Susini, Maker

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Fowler or Bird Catcher

Artwork Date ca. between 1575 and 1600

Makers Giovanni da Bologna (Artist) Italian, 1529-1608 Antonio Susini (Maker) Italian, 1580-1624

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 14 × 7 × 8 1/2 inches (35.6 × 17.8 × 21.6 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

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. 40.133

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Provenance

Von Frey collection

(Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co. Inc., New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1940-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Avery, C. and A. Radcliffe, eds. Giambologna 1529-1608: Sculptor to the Medici. Exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1979, p 163, no. 133 (ill.).

Avery, C., A. Radcliffe, and M. Leithe-Jasper, eds. Giambologna 1529-1608. Ein Wendepunkt der europäischen Plastik. Exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, 1978, p. 220, no. 133 (ill.).

Darr, A. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit." Apollo 124, no. 298 (December 1986): pp. 481, 484, no. 22.

Avery, C. Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture. New York, 1987, p. 46, no. 112.

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 12 (ill.).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 109.

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after a model by Giovanni da Bologna; Antonio Susini, Fowler or Bird Catcher, ca. between 1575 and 1600, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 40.133.