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Provenance

Count Alexander Sergeievitch Stroganoff [1733-1811], Rome; by inheritance to his son, Count Sergei Alexandrovitch Stroganoff [1794-1882], Rome; by inheritance to his son, Count Grigory Sergeievitch Stroganoff [1829-1910], Rome; sold 1900 to Sir George Donaldson [1845-1925], London; sold 1904 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold to Mrs. Collis P. Huntington [d. 1924], San Marino, California; sold 1922 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[1] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA.

Bibliography

1904
Rosenthal, Leon. David. Paris, 1904: 132, 166.
1937
Cortissoz, Roy. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 28.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 225-226, no. A-20, as by Giovanni Bologna.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 253, repro. 229, as by Giovanni Bologna.
1943
Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 302-303.
1944
Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: fig. 216, as The Flying Mercury, by Giovanni Bologna.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 167, repro., as by Giovanni Bologna.
1949
Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 181, note 46, repro. 142-145, as by Giovanni Bologna.
1956
Dhanens, Elisabeth. Jean Boulogne - Giovanni Bologna Fiammingo, Douai 1529 -- Florence 1608: bijdrage tot de studie van de kunstbetrekkingen tussen het Graafschap Vlaanderen en Italie. Brussels, 1956: 135.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 157, as by Giovanni Bologna.
1968
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1968
Seymour, Charles. "The Mercury in the Rotunda of the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 2 (1968): 1-25, repro.
1970
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1973
Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 42.
1984
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1988
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1991
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1991
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1994
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1994
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1998
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2000
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2002
Pincus, Deborah, and Shelley G. Sturman. "Neoclassical Bronze-casting and the Mellon Mercury." Centre 22: Record of Activities and Research Reports June 2001-May 2002 (2002): 156-159, repro. 158.
2003
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2006
David Smith: A Centennial. Exh. cat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London. New York, 2006: 82, fig. 55.
2006
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2017
Dickerson III, C.D. "The Sculpture Collection: Shaping a Vision, Expanding a Legacy." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 56 (Spring 2017): 4, repro.
2019
Sturman, Shelley, in collaboration with Debra Pincus. "The Mellon Mercury: Investigating a Giambologna Replica." Facture: conservation, science, art history 4 (2019): 66-101, 67 unnumbered fig. (detail), figs. 1, 7 (detail), 15, 18, 101.

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