Ideal Portrait of Juliette Récamier as Beatrice, after Antonio Canova Artist: Lorenzo Bartolini (Italian, Florence, 1777–1850)

ca. 1820

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Marble

Dimensions

18 1/2 × 11 13/16 × 8 11/16 in. (47 × 30 × 22 cm)
Height with pedestal : 24 7/16 in. (62 cm)

Credit Line

Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund

Accession Number

2023.103.1

Geography

Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Acquired by Gianmarco Manusardi (1909–1997), Milan, 1930s; by descent to his daughter, Cecilia Porro (née Manusardi, born 1936) and his son-in-law, Casimiro Porro, Milan, 1980s[see note 1]; sold to Benappi Fine Art, Milan and London, 2018; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Note 1: Attestation from Cecilia Porro, Milan, September 19, 2023, copy in accession file
Bibliography
  • Franca Falletti, Silvestra Bietoletti, and Annarita Caputo, eds., Lorenzo Bartolini. Beauty and Truth in Marble (Florence: Giunti Editore, 2012), 192–193
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

sculpture

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