Hebe

ca. 1590

Hubert Gerhard Netherlandish, 1540-1620

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

This statue represents Hebe, the Greek goddess of immortal youth and beauty and the cup-bearer to the gods on Mount Olympus. Gerhard, who trained with Giambologna in Florence, expressed the Florentine mannerist ideal of beauty in this elegant attenuated figure. Designed to be seen from all angles, this spiraling figure is a source of visual delight. Hebe was probably one of two female figures made for the perimeter of the monumental Augustus Fountain that Gerhard created in Augsburg, Germany, between 1589 and 1594.

Title Hebe

Artwork Date ca. 1590

Artist Hubert Gerhard

Life Dates 1540-1620

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Netherlandish

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Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall (including base): 30 × 12 3/8 × 8 1/16 inches (76.2 × 31.4 × 20.5 cm) Overall (without base or marble socle): 24 7/16 × 12 3/8 × 8 1/16 inches (62.1 × 31.4 × 20.5 cm) Mount (base): 6 1/16 × 6 1/16 inches (15.4 × 15.4 cm) Mount (marble socle): 5 13/16 × 8 1/16 × 8 1/16 inches (14.8 × 20.4 × 20.5 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II

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. 59.123

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Provenance

Samuel Boddington (London, England);
Lady Webster (London, England);
J. and S. Goldschmidt (dealer) (Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany);
William Salomon (dealer) (New York, New York, USA);
Rothschild (Vienna, Austria);
Duveen Brothers (dealer) (New York, New York, USA);
1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of Pictures and Bronzes in the Collection of Samuel Boddington. London, 1866, p. 5, no. 53.

"William Salomon's Art Will be Sold." American Art News (November 25, 1922): p. 7.

Brockwell, M.W. The Notable Collection…Estate of the Late William Salomon of New York City. 1923, no. 423 (ill.).

"Palatial New York Mansion of the Late William Salmon and its Rare and Costly Artistic Contents." Art News (March 10, 1923): pp. 6-7.

Leith-Jasper, M. Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. London, 1936, pp. 264-266, no. 72.

Grigaut, P. "'Hebe, Goddess of Immortal Youth' by Adriaen de Vries." Bulletin of the DIA 39, 1 (1959-1960): pp. 8-10 (ill.).

Detroit Institute of Arts. The Institute Collects. 1964 1965, p. 15.

Weihrauch, H.R. Europäische Bronzestatuetten. Brunswick, 1967, pp. 349-350 (figs. 423, 346). [as by Hubert Gerhard]

DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 101.

Selected Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts. October 26, 1982-January 2, 1983, p. 5.

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 140- 141 (ill.).

Diemer, D. "Small Bronzes of Hubert Gerhard: A Review of Recent Scholarship." Studies in the History of Art 62, Symposium Papers 39 (2001): pp. 202-205 (figs. 14 and 16).

Diemer, D. Hubert Gerhard und Carlo di Cesare del Palagio: Bronzeplastiker der Spätrenaissance. Berlin, 2004, vol. 1: pp. 248-250; vol. 2: p. 162, cat. G24 (pls. 37,161, 162a-c).

Bella figura : europäische Bronzekunst in Süddeutschland um 1600. Exh. cat., Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Munich, 2015, pp. 224-225.

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