Firedog with a Figure of Venus

Venetian, Late Eighteenth or Early Nineteenth Century

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 History

Baron 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.

On View First Floor, Room 10, Living Hall

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