About This Artwork

Auguste Jean Baptiste Clésinger
French, 1814-1883

Bust of Giacomo Cardinal Antonelli, 1859

Marble
83.8 x 72.4 x 36.8 cm (33 x 28 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)
the front inscribed in red. Ce G-ANTONELLI and the reverse in red upper case letters: Hommage du Sculpteur J. Clesinger a S. E. Le Cardinal Jacques Antonelli
Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip K. Wrigley; the John H. Leslie, and Harold T. Martin funds, 1975.364a-b

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Grand Palais, "L'art en France sous le second empire," 11 May - 13 August 1979, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1 October – 26 November 1978, Detroit Institute of Arts, 15 January – 18 March, 1979, p. 272.

Publication History

"Le Sculpteur Clesinger (1814-1883)," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 70th year, vol. 18 (November 1928), pp. 283-96.

Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 2, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1970), pp. 393-405.

Ownership History

Antonelli family, Rome [according to original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, before 1975 [according to Commission Book, 1974-75, Heim Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]. Heim Gallery, London, by 1975; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.