About the Artwork
Bull Statuette
between late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE
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Roman
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Bronze
Overall: 6 13/16 × 6 1/2 × 3 5/16 inches (17.3 × 16.5 × 8.4 cm)
Sculpture
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
45.120
Public Domain
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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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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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Roman, Bull Statuette, between late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 45.120.
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