  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
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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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
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
