Harvard Art Museums > 1937.61: Woman Bearing a Slab Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Woman Bearing a Slab (Unidentified Artist)(Circle of Gian Lorenzo Bernini) , 1937.61,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230570. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.61 People Unidentified Artist Circle of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy) Title Woman Bearing a Slab Other Titles Alternate Title: Female Carrying a Slab Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 17th century Culture Italian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230570 Physical Descriptions Medium Terracotta Dimensions 21.8 x 12.5 x 13.5 cm (8 9/16 x 4 15/16 x 5 5/16 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 1937.61 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Richard Norton, Bernini and Other Studies in the History of Art, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1914), p. 49 no. 24, pl. XXVIIb 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 XXXVI, pp. 11-12 Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 224 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
