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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.320
People
Alessandro Algardi, Italian (Bologna 1598 - 1654 Rome)
Title
Madonna and Child
Other Titles
Title: Virgin and Child
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1625-1650
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54424

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with dark brown patina
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
53.7 × 30.3 × 20.5 cm (21 1/8 × 11 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
with base: 54 cm (21 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., sold [through Sotheby's, New York, 1989, lot 156]; to Peter Jay Sharp, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, January 13, 1994, lot 47]; to Alexis Gregory, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Alexis Gregory in honor of James Cuno
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.320
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jennifer Montagu, Alessandro Algardi, Yale University Press/J. Paul Getty Trust (London, England, 1985), vol. II, cat. no. 43.C.6, fig. 195; pp. 348-350
  • Charles Avery, "Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Alexis Gregory Collection", exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1995), cat. no. 49, pp. 79-80, repr. in b/w
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 96, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Collection of Alexis Gregory, Fogg Art Museum, 01/13/1996 - 06/22/1996
  • 32Q: 2210 West Arcade, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/14/2015

Verification Level

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