Venus

Date17th century (?)

MediumBronze

DimensionsH.: 14 in. (35.6 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.2.62

Collection History

Isaac Falcke, London. His sale, April 19–22, 1910, Christie’s, Lot 22, sold for 3,000 guineas to C. Davis. Arthur Sambon. Sold by him in Florence in 1912 for £600 to J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York. Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Sculpture in The Frick Collection: German, Netherlandish, French and British. Volume IV. New York: The Frick Collection, 1970.

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