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Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection
January 28 through June 15, 2014
The Frick Collection, New York
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Andrea Briosco, known as Riccio (Trent, 1470–1532, Padua) Strigil Bearer, cast ca. 1515–20 Bronze H: 32 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Andrea Briosco, known as Riccio (Trent, 1470–1532, Padua) Strigil Bearer (detail), cast ca. 1515–20 Bronze H: 32 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Attributed to Maso Finiguerra (Florence, 1426–64) Hercules and Antaeus, cast ca. 1460 Brass H: 25.2 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Attributed to Maso Finiguerra (Florence, 1426–64) Hercules and Antaeus (detail), cast ca. 1460 Brass H: 25.2 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Attributed to Maso Finiguerra (Florence, 1426–64) Hercules and Antaeus (detail), cast ca. 1460 Brass H: 25.2 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giambologna (Douai, ca. 1529–1608, Florence) Astronomy, cast early 1570s Bronze H: 38.8 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giambologna (Douai, ca. 1529–1608, Florence) Astronomy (detail), cast early 1570s Bronze H: 38.8 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giambologna (Douai, ca. 1529–1608, Florence) Bull, cast 1573 Bronze, with original oval base 21.7 x 26 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giambologna (Douai, ca. 1529–1608, Florence) Bull (detail), cast 1573 Bronze, with original oval base 21.7 x 26 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giambologna (Douai, ca. 1529–1608, Florence) Pacing Horse, cast ca. 1573–77 Bronze 25.1 x 28.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giambologna (Douai, ca. 1529–1608, Florence) Pacing Horse (detail), cast ca. 1573–77 Bronze 25.1 x 28.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Antonio Susini (Florence, 1558–1624) Rape of a Sabine, after Giambologna’s marble group of 1583, cast ca. 1585 Bronze H: 59 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Antonio Susini (Florence, 1558–1624) Rape of a Sabine (detail), after Giambologna’s marble group of 1583, cast ca. 1585 Bronze H: 59 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Antonio Susini (Florence, 1558–1624) Cristo Morto (The Dead Christ on the Cross), after a model by Giambologna of ca. 1588, cast ca. 1590–1615 Gilt bronze H: 31 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Antonio Susini (Florence, 1558–1624) Detail of Cristo Morto (The Dead Christ on the Cross), after a model by Giambologna of ca. 1588, cast ca. 1590–1615 Gilt bronze H: 31 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Gianfrancesco Susini (Florence, 1585–1653) Hercules and Antaeus, after a model by Giambologna, cast ca. 1625–50 Bronze H: 41 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Ferdinando Tacca (Florence, 1619–1686) Ceres and Bacchus, cast probably ca. 1635–40 Bronze H: 45.3 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback, cast by 1717 Bronze H: 62.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback (detail), cast by 1717 Bronze H: 62.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback (detail), cast by 1717 Bronze H: 62.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Seated Hercules and Cerberus, cast ca. 1715–25 Bronze 53 x 34 x 28 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Seated Hercules and Cerberus (detail), cast ca. 1715–25 Bronze 53 x 34 x 28 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Seated Hercules and Cerberus (detail), cast ca. 1715–25 Bronze 53 x 34 x 28 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Hercules and Iolaus Slaying the Hydra, after a model by Alessandro Algardi of ca. 1630, cast ca. 1700–20 Bronze 32.5 x 23 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Hercules and Iolaus Slaying the Hydra (detail), after a model by Alessandro Algardi of ca. 1630, cast ca. 1700–20 Bronze 32.5 x 23 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1598–1654, Rome) Cristo Vivo (The Living Christ on the Cross), model dated ca. 1646; a life-time cast Bronze H: 73 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1598–1654, Rome) Detail of Cristo Vivo (The Living Christ on the Cross), model dated ca. 1646; a life-time cast Bronze H: 73 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1598–1654, Rome) Detail of Cristo Vivo (The Living Christ on the Cross), model dated ca. 1646; a life-time cast Bronze H: 73 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (Delft?, ca. 1525–80, Wedinghausen) Mars Gradivus, cast probably late 1560s Bronze H: 39.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (Delft?, ca. 1525–80, Wedinghausen) Mars Gradivus, cast probably late 1560s Bronze H: 39.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (Delft?, ca. 1525–80, Wedinghausen) Mars Gradivus (detail), cast probably late 1560s Bronze H: 39.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Adriaen de Vries (The Hague, ca. 1545–1626, Prague) Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask, cast ca. 1578–80 Bronze H: 89.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Adriaen de Vries (The Hague, ca. 1545–1626, Prague) Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask (detail), cast ca. 1578–80 Bronze H: 89.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Caspar Gras (Bad Mergentheim, 1585–1674, Schwaz) Roaring Lion, Pouncing, model dated ca. 1630s, cast before 1674 Bronze 21.6 x 23.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Caspar Gras (Bad Mergentheim, 1585–1674, Schwaz) Roaring Lion, Pouncing (detail), model dated ca. 1630s, cast before 1674 Bronze 21.6 x 23.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Circle of Ponce Jacquiot (Rethel, before 1536–70, Paris) Diana, model created after 1556, cast before 1585 Bronze H: 34.8 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Circle of Ponce Jacquiot (Rethel, before 1536–70, Paris) Diana (detail), model created after 1556, cast before 1585 Bronze H: 34.8 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Hubert Le Sueur (Paris, ca. 1580–1660) Venus, cast ca. 1641–60 Bronze H: 45.4 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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François Girardon (Troyes, 1628–1715, Paris) Sleeping Hermaphrodite, cast after a terracotta model attributed to François Duquesnoy, 1699–1709 Bronze, on original carved gilt-wood base attributed to Gilles-Marie Oppenord 21 x 23.2 x 43.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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François Girardon, (Troyes, 1628–1715, Paris) Reclining Venus, cast after a terracotta model attributed to Thibault Poissant, 1699–1709 Bronze, on original carved gilt-wood base attributed to Gilles-Marie Oppenord 24 x 23.5 x 42.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (Delft?, ca. 1525–80, Wedinghausen) Samson Slaying a Philistine, probably modeled in Florence in 1562 Bronze H: 37.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (Delft?, ca. 1525–80, Wedinghausen) Samson Slaying a Philistine, probably modeled in Florence in 1562 Bronze H: 37.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode (Delft?, ca. 1525–80, Wedinghausen) Samson Slaying a Philistine, probably modeled in Florence in 1562 Bronze H: 37.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography
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Giovanni di Paolo (Siena, active ca.1420–82) Christ as the Man of Sorrows with Two Angels, mid-15th century Gold ground and tempera on panel, in an engaged frame 38.4 x 19.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577–1640, Antwerp) Assumption of the Virgin, ca. 1620 Oil on panel 44.5 x 29.2 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899–1968, Varese) Crocifisso (Christ on the Cross), 1950–52 Glazed terracotta 49.8 x 31.4 x 12.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan Photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928–2011, Rome) Untitled, 1959 Oil paint, wax crayon, and lead pencil on canvas 97.5 x 136.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill © Cy Twombly Foundation Photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928–2011, Rome) Untitled, “Chalkboard” series, 1970 Oil paint and oil stick on canvas 155.3 x 189.9 x 5.1 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill © Cy Twombly Foundation Photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Ed Ruscha (Omaha, Nebraska, b.1937) Seventeenth Century, 1988 Acrylic on canvas 142.2 x 340.3 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill © Ed Ruscha Photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Giuseppe Piamontini’s Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback with Ed Ruscha’s, Seventeenth Century, © Ed Ruscha, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries’s, Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask and Giuseppe Piamontini’s Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback with Ed Ruscha’s, Seventeenth Century, © Ed Ruscha, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries’s, Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask with Ed Ruscha’s, Seventeenth Century, © Ed Ruscha, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries’s, Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask with Cy Twombly’s, Untitled, 1959, © Cy Twombly Foundation, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Giuseppe Piamontini’s Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback with Cy Twombly’s Untitled (detail), “Chalkboard” series, 1970, © Cy Twombly Foundation, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing the Labors of Hercules works from the Hill Collection, photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing reclining figures commissioned by François Girardon in the foreground and, in the background, animal sculptures by Caspar Gras and Barthélemy Prieur, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Antonio Susini’s Rape of a Sabine in the foreground, and in the background, Riccio’s Strigil Bearer and other early Italian bronzes from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries’s, Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask and Giuseppe Piamontini’s Prince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback with Ed Ruscha’s, Seventeenth Century, © Ed Ruscha, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view at The Frick Collection showing bronzes from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view of bronzes and other works in the Frick's Cabinet gallery, © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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Installation view showing a pairing in the Frick's Cabinet gallery: Alessandro Algardi's Cristo Vivo (The Living Christ on the Cross), juxtaposed with Lucio Fontana's Crocifisso (Christ on the Cross), © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan; photo: Michael Bodycomb
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