Signed, left back: R Monti
Inscribed, on bottom of base: Copeland Inscribed, on back: Copeland/Pub. May 1862
Biscuit porcelain
Gift of the Estate of James E. Meredith
F69.19
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
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.