About This Artwork

Antonio Canova (Workshop of)
Italian, 1757-1822

Self-Portrait of the Sculptor Antonio Canova, 1812

Plaster
90.5 x 47.6 x 28.6 cm (35 5/8 x 18 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Signed at back on shoulder: CANOVA SELPSUM F A N MDCCCXII.
Wirt D. Walker Endowment and Decorative Arts Purchase Fund, 1975.203

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

For comparison, see:

Ottorino Stefani, Antonio Canova: La statuaria (Milan: Electa, 1999), pp. 146-47, fig. 184.

Ownership History

M. C. Sestieri, Rome, by 1975; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.