Night, 1862

  • Raffaello Monti, Italian, 1818-1881

Biscuit porcelain

  • Overall: 25 1/4 × 10 3/4 × 17 inches (64.1 × 27.3 × 43.2 cm) Overall (figure): 20 × 9 3/4 × 16 3/4 inches (50.8 × 24.8 × 42.5 cm) Overall (base): 5 3/8 × 9 3/4 inches (13.7 × 24.8 cm)

Gift of the Estate of James E. Meredith

F69.19

Signed, left back: R Monti

Inscribed, on bottom of base: Copeland Inscribed, on back: Copeland/Pub. May 1862

Estate of James E. Meredith

1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, 1862, p. 169 Radcliffe, A. "Monti's Allegory of the Risorgimento." Victorian and Albert Museum Bulletin 1 (July 1965): (fig. 6) Shinn, C. and D. Shinn. The Illustrated Guide to Victorian Parian China. London, 1971, p. 73 (fig. 43). Batkin, M. and P. Atterbury. The Origin and Development of Parian, in the Parian Phenomenon: A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary and Busts. Somerset, 1989, pp. 55-56. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et. al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 178.

Raffaello Monti, Night, 1862, biscuit porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estate of James E. Meredith, F69.19.