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Cacus steals the cattle of Hercules

Lost Art-ID

592248

Artist / Creator

Moderno

Place of activity

Rom, Padua, Venedig, Como?

First mentioned

1486/1515

Title

Cacus steals the cattle of Hercules

Dating

1470/1520

Object type

Medal / badge

Group of reported objects

Numismatics

Material / Technique

Metal (Bronze) / cast

Width

5.00 cm

Diameter

7.00 cm

Description

Bange-WV, Nr.: 482 (Α. N. 776. Inv. 1091.) Titel: Cacus stiehlt die Rinder des Herkules. While Hercules has fallen asleep on the right side of the floor, Cacus tries to pull a cow by the tail into his cave. A second one appears behind it. In the distance a wood in the right hand side. Above in raised letters: O. MODERNI. Half relief. Bronze. H. 7, Br. 5 cm. Pierced above the inscription;

Planiscig, 1936, Nr. 54: Titel: Cacus stiehlt die Rinder des Herkules,bronze plaque, in a wide frame. Diameter: 11'9 cm

Provenance

acquired 1880 in Florence with the Bardini Collection; Collection Erich Lederer, Vienna (1936); to Johann Baptist Gudenus, Vienna for safekeeping (until 1945 - looted during the last days of the war); [...]; whereabouts unknown

Literature / Source

Molinier, Les plaq. Nr. 194 (Abb.); E. L. Bange, Die italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, 2. Teil: Reliefs und Plaketten, Berlin 1922, Nr. 482, Abb. Tafel 47; Leo Planiscig, Ernst Kris, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Juni-Juli 1936, Nr. 54 (Sammlung L., Wien); Sophie Lillie, Klimt's Women Collectors: The Pulitzer Sisters Szerena Lederer, Jenny Steiner and Aranka Munk, Diss. Wien, 2014, S. 197

Published since

17.11.2020

Contact

Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.