Benvenuto Cellini
Ganymede

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ArtistAfter Benvenuto CelliniItalian (Florentine), 1500–1571

CultureItalian or French

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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

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

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SCULPTURE

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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