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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.74
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Melchiorre Cafà, Italian (Vittoriosa, Malta 1631 - 1667 Rome)
Title
Virgin and Child
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230502

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
27.94 cm (11 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was the 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
1937.74
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. 49 no. 23, plate XXVI
  • 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, repr. p. 27, fig. 2
  • "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  • Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, pp. 212-215
  • Rudolf Preimesberger, "Ein Bozzetto Melchiorre Cafas", Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte (1969), XXII, pp. 178-183
  • Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1997), pp. 254-255, pl. 369.
  • Kendra Roth, "The Technical Examination of Polychrome and Gilding Layers Applied to Two Bernini Modelli" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1997), Unpublished, pp. 1-15 passim
  • Tony Sigel, "The Clay Modeling Techniques of Melchiorre Cafà: A Preliminary Assessment", Melchiorre Cafà: Maltese Genius of the Roman Baroque, Midsea Books (Valetta, Malta, 2006), pp. 161-233, p. 232, details repr. in b/w as figs. 360-361; p. 266, repr. in b/w

Exhibition History

  • The Grand Manner, Art Institute, Zanesville, Zanesville, 04/04/1950 - 05/02/1950
  • In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/28/1998 - 06/30/2008

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