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Lion
Southern Italian
Medieval (Romanesque)
about 1225–50
Object Place: Europe, Southern Italy (?)
Medium/Technique
Stone; carbonaceous limestone
Dimensions
78 cm (30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number40.784
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceArt Market, England (?) [see note 1]. 1940, Raphael Stora, New York; 1940, sold by Stora to the MFA for $1500. (Accession Date: December 12, 1940)
Notes:
[1] "[The object's] previous history is unknown except for the reliable fact that it first appeared on the market in England." Georg Swarzenski, "A Romanesque Stone Lion," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, No. 233 (June 1941): 32.
Notes:
[1] "[The object's] previous history is unknown except for the reliable fact that it first appeared on the market in England." Georg Swarzenski, "A Romanesque Stone Lion," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, No. 233 (June 1941): 32.