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Rape of the Sabine
After: Giambologna (Jean Boulogne) (Flemish (worked in Italy), 1529–1608)
Italian (Florence)
Renaissance
late 16th century
Object Place: Europe, Florence, Italy
Medium/Technique
Ceramic; gilded plaster
Credit Line
Seth Kettell Sweeter Fund
Accession Number1971.143
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionGilded stucco model after Giovanni da Bologna's marble group in Florence. Hand missing from Sabine's proper left arm.
ProvenancePossibly Oscar Bondy (b. 1870 - d. 1944), Vienna and New York[see note]. 1971, sold by Blumka Gallery, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 1971)
NOTE:
According to information provided at the time of acquisition. Attempts to identify the sculpture in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection have not been successful.
With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Oscar and Elisabeth Bondy were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Blumka Gallery. For further on Oscar Bondy, see Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Vienna, 2003), pp. 216-245.
NOTE:
According to information provided at the time of acquisition. Attempts to identify the sculpture in inventories of Oscar Bondy's collection have not been successful.
With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Oscar and Elisabeth Bondy were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. Mr. Bondy and his wife left Europe and emigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market, particularly through Blumka Gallery. For further on Oscar Bondy, see Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Vienna, 2003), pp. 216-245.