About the Artwork
Hercules Fighting Two Centaurs
ca. 1785
Jean Baptiste Stouf
1742-1826
French
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Terracotta
Overall: 23 1/4 × 14 1/8 × 11 3/8 inches (59.1 × 35.9 × 28.9 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund and French 18th Century Art Fund
71.396.A
Public Domain
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Provenance
Private collections (Paris, France and London, England);(Heim Gallery, dealer);
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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): pp. 12-14, 13 (ill.).
Margerie, Laure de, and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain. French Sculpture in America: An American Passion. Ghent/France, 2023, p. 258.
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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.
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