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Ganymede

Ganymede

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Ganymede
ArtistItalian (Florentine), 1500–1571
CultureItalian or French
Titles
  • Ganymede
DateProbably 19th century
MediumBronze
Dimensions12 3/8 × 5 7/16 × 4 1/4 in. (31.4 × 13.8 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
Object number44.587
Not on view

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Department
Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenancePerhaps Mileva Nákó von Nagyszentmiklós, Duchess of San Marco (1838–1926); [Arnold Seligmann, Rey, and Co., Paris, by February 1932]; bought from Seligmann by Percy S. Straus on September 6, 1932; bequeathed to MFAH, 1944.
Exhibition History"Builders & Humanists," University of St. Thomas, Houston, March 23, 1966.
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