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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

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

Publication History

Gypsotheca canoviana eretta in Possagno da Mons. Giambatista Sartori Canova, vescovo di Mindi (Bassano, Italy, n.d.), p. 4, no. 6.

Catalogo cronologico delle sculture di Antonio Canova pubblicato dietro richiesta di S.A.R. il Principe di Baviera (Rome, 1800), p. 9.

Melchior Missirini, Della vita di Antonio Canova (Prato, Italy, 1824), p. 108.

J. S. Memes, Memoirs of Antonio Canova, with a Critical Analysis of his Works and an Historical Overview of Modern Sculpture (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 573.

Alfred Gottlieb Meyer, Künstler-Monographien, Vol. 39 Canova (Leipzig, 1898), pp. 42, 98–99.

Elena Bassi, Canova (Rome, 1943), p. 23.

Elena Bassi, La Gipsoteca di Possagno: sculture e dipinti di Antonio Canova (Venice, 1957), p. 150, no. 143.

Giuseppe Pavanello, L’opera completa del Canova (Milan, 1976), p. 104, no. 115.

Guiseppe Pavanello, “Antonio d’este, amico Canova, scultore,” Antologia di belle arti 1, 35–38 (1990), pp. 20–22, no. 36.

Paolo Mariuz, “D’ESTE, Antonio,” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 39 (Rome, 1991), p. 427.

Hugh Honour, ed., Edizione Nazionale di Antonio Canova: Scritti 1 (Rome, 1994), pp. 311, 402, 410, 427.

Paolo Mariuz, ed., Antonio d’Este, Memorie di Antonio Canova, reprint (Padua, 1999), pp. xv, n. 15, 317, 373.

Ownership History

Gesso modello completed by Antonio Canova, 1800. The subject reworked in marble by Antonio d’Este for Count Antonio Widman (Widmann or Widmanio), Venice, after 1800. Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome [see photograph with gallery information in curatorial file]. Ferdinand Nagler, Vienna, by 1936 [see copy of receipt in curatorial file]; sold to Bertha C. Loomis, Chicago, 1936 [see source cited above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1966.