About the Artwork
Jason Resting after Slaying the Dragon
early 20th century
Bertoldo di Giovanni
1420 - 1491
Italian
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 8 13/16 × 4 7/8 × 4 3/4 inches, 5.3 pounds (22.4 × 12.4 × 12.1 cm, 2.4 kg)
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
56.33
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Kobler Collection (New York, New York, USA)
(Paul Drey, New York, New York, USA)
1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Mythological Journeys. Exh. cat. ?, Houston Museum of Fine Arts. 1959.
Richardson, E.P. "Bertoldo and Verrocchio: Two Fifteenth Century Florentine Bronzes," Art Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3 (Autumn 1959): pp. 205-215.
The Triumph of Humanism: A Visual Survey of the Decorative Arts of the Renaissance. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1977, p. 81, no. 2.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, 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. 267.
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after Bertoldo di Giovanni, Jason Resting after Slaying the Dragon, early 20th century, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 56.33.
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