1917.173: The Water Vendor
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1917.173
- People
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Vincenzo Gemito, Italian (Naples, Italy 1852 - 1929 Naples, Italy)
- Title
- The Water Vendor
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: L'Aquaiolo
Alternate Title: Boy with a Water Jug - Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1880-1881
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231682
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 54.6 x 23.5 x 29.2 cm (21 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: back of base, in relief: DALL'ORIGINALE / PROP'TA DEI RE DI NAPOLI / SM FRANCESCO II / NAPOLI GEMITO
- exhibition label: under base, paper: del Nero / 77.08
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Angelo del Nero Foundry], Rome; sold to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1917.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1917
- Object Number
- 1917.173
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- "Notes of the Month", The International Studio (September 1929), vol. XCIV, no. 388, p. 59
- Ian Wardropper and Fred Licht, Chiseled with a Brush: Italian Sculpture 1860-1925 from the Gilgore Collections, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1994), p. 19, cat. no. 19, p. 88, repr.
Exhibition History
- Gemito's, [Unknown Venue, New York], New York, 04/08/1907 - 04/20/1907
- Renaissance and Modern Bronzes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/04/1908 - 04/13/1908
Verification Level
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