Lot 81: CIRCLE  OF  GIOVANNI  MARIA  NOSSENI  (1544-1620)GERMAN  OR  BOHEMIAN,  17TH  CENTURY

OTHER  PROPERTIES
HERCULES
bronze,  on  a  verde  antico  marble  base
bronze:  29.5  by  14cm.,  11  5/8    by  5½in.
base:  23  by  25.4cm.,  9  by  10in.

W. D. Wixon, Renaissance bronzes from Ohio collections, exhib. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1975, no. 224 (referenced)

Carl Eduard, Duke of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha, Schloss Friedenstein, Herzogliche Museum, Gotha;
with Kunsthandel Heilbronner, Berlin;
Weininger collection, New York;
by whom sold, Christie's London, 5 December 1972, lot 40 (as Adriaen de Vries);
where it was acquired by the present owner