Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, 1505

  • Gian Cristoforo Romano, Italian, ca. 1465-1512

Marble

  • Overall: 19 7/16 × 24 1/8 × 11 1/2 inches (49.4 × 61.3 × 29.2 cm)

Gift of Baron Eric de Goldschmidt-Rothschild

61.65

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

mid-19th century, purchased in (Asolo, Italy) by Count Wilhelm von Pourtales [1815-1889] (Venice, Italy)

by 1898, Count Friedrich von Pourtales [1853-1928] (Berlin, Germany before 1898), (The Hague, Netherlands from 1899), (Munich, Germany from 1902), (St. Petersburg, Russia 1907-1922), (Schloss Glumbowitz, Silesia, Poland from ca. 1920)

by 1961, Baron Eric de Goldschmidt-Rothschild (Los Angeles, California)

1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bode, W. von. Die Ausstellung von Gemalden Altere Meister. Die Renaissance - Galerie, Die Sammlung des Grafen Wilhelm Pourtales, Jahrbuch der Koniglich - Preussuschen 4, 1883, pp. 143-144. Reprint Burger, 1907, pp. 153-154 (fig. 11). Selected Renaissance Works of Art From the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, p. 5. Caroselli, Susan Lyons. "A Portrait Bust of Caterina Cornaro by Tullio Lombardo." Bulletin of the DIA 61, nos. 1-2 (1983): pp. 46-57 (ill.). Markham Schulz, A. Cristoforo Slari at Venice: Facts and Suppositions, Prospettiva 53 - 56, April 1988 - January 1989, p. 313 (figs. 7, 10). Luchs, A. Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, 1490-1530. Cambridge, 1994, pp. 12-13 (fig. 12). Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, I, cat. 112.

attributed to Gian Cristoforo Romano, Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, 1505, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Baron Eric de Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 61.65.