Hercules Fighting Two Centaurs, ca. 1785

  • Jean Baptiste Stouf, French, 1742-1826

Terracotta

  • Overall: 23 1/4 × 14 1/8 × 11 3/8 inches (59.1 × 35.9 × 28.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund and French 18th Century Art Fund

71.396.A

On View

  • Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Private collections (Paris, France and London, England)

(Heim Gallery, dealer)

1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Explication des Ouvrages des Peintures, Sculptures, et Messieurs de l'Academie Royale. Paris, 1785, p. 53. Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'ecole francaise au dix-huitieme siecle, vol. 2. Paris, 1911, p. 345. Cummings, F. J. "Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 1 (1971): 12-14, 13 (ill.). Margerie, Laure de, and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain. French Sculpture in America: An American Passion. Ghent/France, 2023, p. 258.

Jean Baptiste Stouf, Hercules Fighting Two Centaurs, ca. 1785, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund and French 18th Century Art Fund, 71.396.A.