Farnese Hercules

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.)

Farnese Hercules

Florentine 16th Century

c. 1550/1599

Accession Number

1960.10.1

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 56.8 x 27.3 x 25.4 cm (22 3/8 x 10 3/4 x 10 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Stanley Mortimer