WORKSHOP OF ANTONIO CANOVA (1748-1822) A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF BEATRICE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
On a turned marble socle base
bust 48cm high, 61cm high overall, base 19.5cm diameter
Literature:
Gérard Hubert, La sculpture dans l'Italie Napoléonienne, Paris, Editions E. de Boccard, 1964, no.16, p. 474;
Giuseppe Pavanello, Mario Praz, L'opera complete del Canova, Milan, Rizzoli, 1976, pp. 122-123;
Franca Falletti, Silvestra Biotoletti, Annarita Caputo, Lorenzo Bartolini scultore del bello naturale, Giunti, Firenze Musei, 2011, pp. 192-193.
This bust began life in 1813 as a portrait of the celebrated beauty Juliette Récamier by the greatest neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova Canova's original plaster bust did not please Récamier and Canova transformed the portrait into a bust of Beatrice, the muse of the poet Dante Aligheri. This particular version of what the artist called his "testi ideali", became one of his most popular depictions.
Canova made two versions in marble: one between 1817 and 1818, with the head covered by a simple veil, which he offered to his biographer Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), and another sculpted in 1822 for the collector Alexander Baring (1774-1848) with the head crowned with an olive branch. Other copies made by Canova himself or by his workshop include the version in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (inv. 1292-1), another in the Boston Museum (inv. 2002.318 MFA Boston Link ).
WORKSHOP OF ANTONIO CANOVA (1748-1822) A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF BEATRICE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
On a turned marble socle base
bust 48cm high, 61cm high overall, base 19.5cm diameter
Literature:
Gérard Hubert, La sculpture dans l'Italie Napoléonienne, Paris, Editions E. de Boccard, 1964, no.16, p. 474;
Giuseppe Pavanello, Mario Praz, L'opera complete del Canova, Milan, Rizzoli, 1976, pp. 122-123;
Franca Falletti, Silvestra Biotoletti, Annarita Caputo, Lorenzo Bartolini scultore del bello naturale, Giunti, Firenze Musei, 2011, pp. 192-193.
This bust began life in 1813 as a portrait of the celebrated beauty Juliette Récamier by the greatest neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova Canova's original plaster bust did not please Récamier and Canova transformed the portrait into a bust of Beatrice, the muse of the poet Dante Aligheri. This particular version of what the artist called his "testi ideali", became one of his most popular depictions.
Canova made two versions in marble: one between 1817 and 1818, with the head covered by a simple veil, which he offered to his biographer Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), and another sculpted in 1822 for the collector Alexander Baring (1774-1848) with the head crowned with an olive branch. Other copies made by Canova himself or by his workshop include the version in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (inv. 1292-1), another in the Boston Museum (inv. 2002.318 MFA Boston Link ).
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