1937.56: Triton Bearing a Draped Woman on his Shoulder

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.56

People

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

Title

Triton Bearing a Draped Woman on his Shoulder

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230912

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

49 x 38 x 27 cm (19 5/16 x 14 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Rome, Italy. Cavaceppi (1717-1799) was an eighteenth-century sculptor and restorer of antique sculpture. This work corresponds with a sculpture listed in his inventory.
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was 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

1937.56

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. 47, no. 10, pl. XVII
• 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• Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 226
• Maria Giulia Barberini and Carlo Gasparri, "I bozzetti ed i modelli dei secoli XVI-XVIII della collezione di Bartolomeo Cavaceppi", exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1994), no. 25, p. 122; repr. as fig. 96
• Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1997), p. 208, fig. 304

Exhibition History

• In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980

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