1938.40: Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1938.40

People

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

Title

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture, relief

Date

1779-1780

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230657

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

16.1 × 2.9 cm (6 5/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
framed: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
467.9 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: impressed on truncation: I B NINI / 1779; below: 1780 J. B. NINI F.
• inscription: around image, cast, Latin: MARIA · ANTONIA · ARC · AUST · GALLORUM · REGINA
• inscription: verso, blue paint, handwritten: 7
• inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten, French: [Abba]ye des Benedictines de St. Calais (Sarthe)
• label: verso, black ink, handwritten: M. Antoinette / No. 38

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 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

1938.40

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Marie Antoinette in left profile. Perforated at upper margin for hanging wire. The words in the identifying inscription are separated by fleurs-de-lys.

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