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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.56
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously given to pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Title
Triton Bearing a Draped Woman on his Shoulder
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230912

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
49 x 38 x 27 cm (19 5/16 x 14 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Rome, Italy. Cavaceppi (1717-1799) was an eighteenth-century sculptor and restorer of antique sculpture. This work corresponds with a sculpture listed in his inventory.
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was curator of the Galleria Borghese.
Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.56
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard Norton, Bernini and Other Studies in the History of Art, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1914), p. 47, no. 10, pl. XVII
  • Leonard Opdycke, "A Group of Models for Berninesque Sculptures", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1938), vol. VII, no. 2, p. 29
  • "Bernini Bozzetti for America: Sketches by the Baroque Genius for the Fogg Art Museum", Art News, Art News (New York, NY, June 4, 1938), vol. XXXVI, pp. 11-12
  • Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 226
  • Maria Giulia Barberini and Carlo Gasparri, "I bozzetti ed i modelli dei secoli XVI-XVIII della collezione di Bartolomeo Cavaceppi", exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1994), no. 25, p. 122; repr. as fig. 96
  • Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1997), p. 208, fig. 304

Exhibition History

  • In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980

Verification Level

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