The Emperor Hadrian

Provenance

Stanley Mortimer [1897-1984], New York, and Litchfield, Connecticut;[1] gift 1948 to NGA. [1] Stanley Mortimer probably inherited the sculpture from his father, also Stanley Mortimer, who was a portrait painter and who in the 1890s built a sixty-room English Tudor manor house on his estate on Long Island and filled it with Renaissance art. (See Steven M.L. Aronson, "A Life in the Country: Patrician bohemians Barbara and Stanley Mortimer look back on a charmed circle of family and friends," _House and Garden_ [April 1984]: 165-171, 230, 232.)

The Emperor Hadrian

Lombardo, Ludovico

c. 1550

Accession Number

1945.16.1

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 72.7 x 63.8 x 41.1 cm (28 5/8 x 25 1/8 x 16 3/16 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Stanley Mortimer