Firedog with a Figure of Venus
Date1775–1825
MediumBronze
DimensionsH.: 33 5/8 in. (85.4 cm)
Figure: 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1916.2.55
Collection HistoryBaron Albert von Oppenheim, Cologne. Sold through Jacques Seligmann, in 1906, 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.
Probably French, Late Nineteenth or Early Twentieth Century
1675–1725 and 19th century
French, Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century
ca. 1790
French, Eighteenth Century
ca. 1770
Probably American, Late Nineteenth Century
Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), First Half of the Eighteenth Century
ca. 1755−60
Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), First Half of the Eighteenth Century
ca. 1755−60
