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    Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn to Throw the Discus
    François-Joseph Bosio. Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn to Throw the Discus, c. 1824. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001953

    Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn to Throw the Discus

    by François-Joseph Bosio

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed: f. bosio (edge of base)

    Provenance

    Madame G., Paris, before 1868; sold, her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 14, 1868, lot 64 [see Hubert, p. 109]. Charles (?) Bardon, Paris, before 1874; offered for sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 9, 1874, lot 1, as “Narcisse.” Baron Roger de Sivry, Paris, before 1903; by descent to his widow, Baronness Roger de Sivry, Paris; sold, her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 22–23, 1904, lot 181. Private collection, France [according to letter from Anthony Roth to Ian Wardropper, November 21, 1990, in curatorial file]. Anthony Roth Fine Art, London, by 1990; sold to the Art Institute, 1991.

    Publications

    “Revue des ventes: Collection de Mme. la baronne Roger de Sivry,” Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot 13, no. 84–85 (March 24 and 25, 1904). L. Barbarin, Étude sur Bosio: Sa vie et son oeuvre (Imprimerie de Monaco, 1910), 109–10. Gérard Hubert, Les Sculpteurs italiens en France sous la Révolution, L’Empire et la Restauration, 1790–1830 (Paris: Éditions E. de Boccard, 1964), 109, no. 1. Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 1, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970), 155. “Principales acquisitions des musées en 1991,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 119 (March 1992): 71, fig. 242. Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, no. 475 (September 2001): 9–10, 12 n. 13, fig. 14. Volker Krahn, “Die Regentschaft von Friedrich Wilhelm III,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 60, Von Italien nach Preußen: Die Entstehung der Skulpturensammlung im Königlichen Museum 1820–1870 (November 2022): 122, fig. 134. For information about the feminized male nude in the neoclassical tradition, see: Abigail Solomon-Godeau, "The Body Politics of Homosociality," in Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997), 43-97.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    François-Joseph Bosio (French, 1768-1845)
    Date
    c. 1824
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    44.5 × 124.5 cm (17 1/2 × 15 11/16 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    large scale
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection; Major Acquisitions Fund
    Accession no.
    1991.117

    Open-access museum record · AT-00001953

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