Details
| Artist | Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian, 1598-1680 |
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| Date | ca. 1630s, before 1642 |
| Medium | Terracotta |
| Dimensions | Overall: 11 × 6 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (27.9 × 17.1 × 18.4 cm) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund |
| Accession Number | 52.218 |
| Department | European Sculpture and Dec Arts |
| On View | European: Grand Tour of Italy-Rome, Level 2 (see map) |
Provenance
possibly Palazzo Barberini (Rome, Italy);
Friedrich von Amerling (Vienna, Austria);
May 6, 1916, (Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria) Estate of Friedrich von Amerling, lot 178;
Dr. Rudolphe Berl (Vienna, Austria);
(Wildenstein, New York, New York, USA);
1952-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Friedrich von Amerling (Vienna, Austria);
May 6, 1916, (Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria) Estate of Friedrich von Amerling, lot 178;
Dr. Rudolphe Berl (Vienna, Austria);
(Wildenstein, New York, New York, USA);
1952-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Planscig, Leo. "Die Auktion Amerling." Die Bildenden Kunste [Der Architekt], vol. XXI (1916/18): p. II (ill.)
Brinckmann, A.E. "Due bozzetti per fontana di G.L. Bernini." Bolletino D'arte (1924): pp. 492-493.
Brinckmann, A.E. Barock-Bozzeti, vol. 2. Frankfurt, 1924, pp. 491-493.
Bozzetti und Modelletti der Spatrenaissance und des Barock. Exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, 1936-1937, nos. 3-4.
Born, Wolfgang. "Bozzetti and modelletti of the late Renaissance and the Baroque." Connoisseur 99 (April 1937): pp. 191-192 (figs. 1 and 3).
Froelich-Bume, L. "Bozzetti and modelletti of the Late Renaissance and the Baroque." Burlington Magazine 70 (March 1937): p. 133.
Bulletin of the DIA 32, no. 3 (1952-1953): pp. 60-64 (ill.).
Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, no. 27 (ill.).
Wittkower, R. Gian Lorenzo Bernini. London, 1966, p. 227, no. 55 [as a bozzetto].
Fagiolo dell'Arco (1967): (figs. 38, 142).
Schlegel, U. Die italienschen Bildwerke des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1978, p. 12, no. 4.
Darr in Rome. 1999, pp. 182, 382-384, nos. 121-122.
Gaskell, I. and H. Lie, eds. Sketches in Clay for Prjects by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Theoretical, Technical and Case Studies. Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Spring 1999): pp. 120, 123, 177.
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, 2 vols., II, cat. 136a.
Ostrow, Steven F. "'The Fire of Art'?: A Historiography of Bernini’s Bozzetti." In Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, ed. C. D. Dickerson III, Anthony Sigel, and Ian Wardropper. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 77–78.
Brinckmann, A.E. "Due bozzetti per fontana di G.L. Bernini." Bolletino D'arte (1924): pp. 492-493.
Brinckmann, A.E. Barock-Bozzeti, vol. 2. Frankfurt, 1924, pp. 491-493.
Bozzetti und Modelletti der Spatrenaissance und des Barock. Exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, 1936-1937, nos. 3-4.
Born, Wolfgang. "Bozzetti and modelletti of the late Renaissance and the Baroque." Connoisseur 99 (April 1937): pp. 191-192 (figs. 1 and 3).
Froelich-Bume, L. "Bozzetti and modelletti of the Late Renaissance and the Baroque." Burlington Magazine 70 (March 1937): p. 133.
Bulletin of the DIA 32, no. 3 (1952-1953): pp. 60-64 (ill.).
Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, no. 27 (ill.).
Wittkower, R. Gian Lorenzo Bernini. London, 1966, p. 227, no. 55 [as a bozzetto].
Fagiolo dell'Arco (1967): (figs. 38, 142).
Schlegel, U. Die italienschen Bildwerke des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1978, p. 12, no. 4.
Darr in Rome. 1999, pp. 182, 382-384, nos. 121-122.
Gaskell, I. and H. Lie, eds. Sketches in Clay for Prjects by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Theoretical, Technical and Case Studies. Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Spring 1999): pp. 120, 123, 177.
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, 2 vols., II, cat. 136a.
Ostrow, Steven F. "'The Fire of Art'?: A Historiography of Bernini’s Bozzetti." In Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, ed. C. D. Dickerson III, Anthony Sigel, and Ian Wardropper. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 77–78.
