Self-Portrait of the Sculptor Antonio Canova

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1812

Workshop of Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Antonio Canova
Title: Self-Portrait of the Sculptor Antonio Canova
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1812
Medium: Plaster
Inscriptions: Inscribed: CANOVA SELPSUM F A N MDCCCXII (back shoulder)
Dimensions: 90.5 × 47.6 × 28.6 cm (35 5/8 × 18 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Endowment and Decorative Arts Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1975.203
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For comparison, see:
Ottorino Stefani, Antonio Canova: La statuaria (Milan: Electa, 1999), pp. 146-47, fig. 184.

Washington, DC, Canova: Sketching in Clay, June 11–Oct. 9, 2023, not in cat.; Art Institue of Chicago, Nov. 19, 2023-Mar. 18, 2024 [Chicago only].

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

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