Harpy Bestriding Grotesque Fish

Italian, Florence

Datelate 16th to early 17th century

MediumBronze

DimensionsH.: 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.2.52

Collection History

Sold through Jacques Seligmann, April 23, 1902, to J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York. Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Sculpture in The Frick Collection: Italian. Volume III. New York: The Frick Collection, 1970.

On View Second Floor, Room 33, Sitting Room

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