Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822

Bust of Paris, 1809

Marble
Height: 26 in. (66 cm)
signed, dated, and dedicated on back: "Ant(o)nio Quatremere/Amico Optimo/Antonius Canova/Dono Dedit/F. Romae/An. MDCCCIX"
Harold Stuart Endowment; restricted gift of Mrs. Harold T. Martin, 1984.530

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Canova and France," 15 January – 20 February 1985 [no cat].

Publication History

J. S. Memes, Memoirs of Antonio Canova, with a Critical Analysis of his Works, and an Historical Overview of Modern Sculpture (Edinburgh, 1825), pp. 508, 576.

Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Canova et ses ouvrages ou mémoires historiques sur la vie et les traveaux de ce célèbre artiste (Paris, 1834), p. 175, no. 1.

"Succession de Mme. C.," Gazette de l’hôtel Drouot 17, 347–48 (December 10–11, 1908).

René Schneider, Quatremère de Quincy et son intervention dans les arts: 1788-1830 (Paris, 1910), p. 381.

Elena Bassi, La Gipsoteca di Possagno: Sculture E Dipinti di Antonio Canova (Venice, 1957), pp. 180–81.

Gérard Hubert, La Sculpture dan l'Italie Napoléonienne (Paris, 1964), pp. 135-36 n. 6, fig. 43.

Mario Praz, L’Opera completa del Canova (Milan, 1976), p. 118, nos. 207, 208.

Ian Wardropper and Thomas Rowlands, "Antonio Canova and Quatremère de Quincy: The Gift of Friendship," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 1 (1989), pp. 38–46.

Venice, Correr Museum, Canova (1992), p. 320, no.144 (ill.).

Hugh Honour, Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Canova 1 (Rome, 1994), pp. 405, 414.

Ian Wardropper, "Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 9–10, no. 13.

Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico, Canova (2003), pp. 398-99, fig. IV24.

Ownership History

Antoine Chrysosome Quatremère de Quincy (died 1849), Paris, by 1810 [gift from the artist, according to Quatremère de Quincy, 1834]; sold, his estate sale, 14 rue de Condé, Paris, April 22, 1850, lot 2. Sold, Hôtel des Ventes Mobiliéres, Paris, March 15, 1851, lot 48. Madame Chesnet, before 1908; sold, her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 7–8, 1908, lot 82, to M. (Emilio?) Mihura for 800 francs [see Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, December 10–11, 1908]. Pradere family, Buenos Aires, before 1955 [according to letter from Francisco Murature to Hugh Honour, February 10, 1983, in curatorial file]. Casa Pardo, Buenos Aires, by late 1950s [according to source cited above]; sold to Francisco Murature, Buenos Aires, by late 1950s [according to source cited above]. Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York, by early 1980s; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.