Leandro Gagliardi
Italian, 1729-1798

Chigi-Alban Candlestick, 1776

Gilt bronze
20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm)
Florence L. Notter Fund, 1971.436

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century," 16 March - 28 May 2000, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 25 June - 17 September 2000, cat. 72.

Publication History

Romolo Trinchieri, "Una villa settecentessca poco nota: Villa Chigi," Amor di Roma 30 (1955), p. 420.

Giovanni Incisa della Rocchetta, "Villa Chigi," Capitolium 36, 8 (August 1961), p. 6.

Isa Belli Barsali, Ville di Roma (Milan, 1970), pp. 334 nos. 4 and 6, 339.

Vincenzo Golzio, Palazzi Romani, dalla Rinascita al neoclassico (Bologna, 1971), p. 85, fig. 93.

John W. Keefe, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Chicago, 1977), p. 94.

Alvar González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi (Milan, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 185–87; vol. 2, figs. 318, 321.

Ghenete Zelleke, "David Adler: Benefactor and Trustee," David Adler, Architect, edited by Martha Thorne (Chicago, 2002), p. 66.

Ownership History

Commissioned by Cardinal Flavio II Chigi, Rome, before 1776 [see González-Palacios 1993 and Philadelphia 2000 exh. cat.]; by descent to Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere (died 1951), Rome [according to letter from Giovanni Incisa della Rocchetta to A. S. Ciechanowiecki, May 17, 1971, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his nephew, Prince Mario Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, Rome [according to an undated, anonymous note; June 15, 1971 memo by John Keefe; and Heim Gallery correspondence in curatorial file; see also Keefe 1977]; sold by him to Bianca Riccio, Rome, before 1971 [according to letter from Franco di Castro, 11 June 1971, and letter from Alberto di Castro, April 16, 2004, in curatorial file]; sold by Bianca Riccio, through Alberto di Castro, Rome, to the Art Institute, 1971.