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 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.

Not On View

Venetian, Late Eighteenth or Early Nineteenth Century

1775–1825

Probably French, Late Nineteenth or Early Twentieth Century

1675–1725 and 19th century

Venetian, Middle of the Sixteenth Century

ca. 1550

Venetian, Middle of the Sixteenth Century

ca. 1550

Probably American, Late Nineteenth Century

French, Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century

ca. 1790

Italian, Nineteenth Century

19th century

Italian, Nineteenth Century

19th century (?)

French, Eighteenth Century

ca. 1770

French, Late Sixteenth Century

late 16th century and 19th century

French, Nineteenth Century

late 19th century

Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), First Half of the Eighteenth Century

ca. 1755−60