1937.59: Mary Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.59

People

Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to follower of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)

Title

Mary Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

17th-18th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230609

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

25.5 x 23 x 13 cm (10 1/16 x 9 1/16 x 5 1/8 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

1937.59

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 26
• 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, pp. 26-30
• "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
• 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Bernini Modelli" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1997), Unpublished, pp. 1-15 passim

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