1938.32: Catherine II (1729-1796)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1938.32

People

Giovanni Battista Nini, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1717 - 1786 Chaumont sur Loire, France)

Title

Catherine II (1729-1796)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

relief, sculpture

Date

1771

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230653

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

15 × 3.2 cm (5 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
framed: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.)
485.2 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: impressed on truncation: J B NINI F / 1771
• inscription: verso, blue paint, handwritten: 4
• inscription: verso, black ink, faded/worn, handwritten, French: [largely illegible:] [Abbaye des Benedictines?] / Imperatrice [de?] Russie
• inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten: Catherine II / de Russie / no. 32 du / Catalogue Villers
• inscription: back of frame, white chalk, handwritten: 3
• inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten, Cyrillic: [inscription identifying Catherine II]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1938

Object Number

1938.32

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Catherine the Great in left profile, wearing laurel crown. Perforated at upper margin for hanging wire.

Publication History

• [Reproduction only], Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, (Cambridge, MA, March 1939)., repr. in b/w p. 58

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