Details
ENTOURAGE D'ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822), ITALIE, VERS 1800-1820
Mise au tombeau
esquisse en terre cuite
H. 22,5 cm (8 7⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Robert von Hirsch ;
Sa vente, Sotheby's Londres, 22 juin 1978, lot 408, décrit comme "Fin du XVIIIe siècle, attribué à Antonio Canova".
Cyril Humphries, Londres ;
Sa vente, Sotheby's New York, 10 janvier 1995, lot 75, décrit comme "Italie, fin du XVIIIe siècle, attribué à Antonio Canova".
Alexis Gregory, New York ;
Vente au profit de sa fondation, Sotheby's New York, 22-30 janvier 2021, lot 816.
Collection particulière, Paris.
Literature
F. D. Draper et G. Scherf (dir.), L'esprit créateur de Pigalle à Canova. Terres cuites européennes 1740-1840, cat. exp. musée du Louvre, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York et Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2003, cat. 136, p. 305.
Bibliographie comparative :
F. D. Draper et G. Scherf (dir.), L'esprit créateur de Pigalle à Canova. Terres cuites européennes 1740-1840, cat. exp. musée du Louvre, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York et Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2003, cat. 136, pp. 304-305.
C. D. Dickerson III (dir.), Canova. Sketching in clay, cat. exp. National Gallery of Art, Washington et The Art Institute, Chicago, 2023, dont cat. 46 à 49 et p. 269.
Further details
A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF THE ENTOMBMENT, IN THE MANNER OF ANTONIO CANOVA (1757–1822), ITALIAN, CIRCA 1800-1820
The treatment of this group recalls that of certain terracottas by Antonio Canova (1757–1822), notably his Pietà executed around 1818–22 (Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia, inv. S.3), as well as his groups of Adam and Eve Mourning the Dead Abel from the same years (Possagno, Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova, inv. 286, and the Vatican Museums, inv. 44551 and 44552). The composition is also comparable to the Lamentation over the Dead Christ or Entombment attributed to Camillo Pacetti (1758–1822), now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (inv. 56.305). Moreover, our terracotta is discussed by James David Draper in his entry on Pacetti, where he describes it while emphasizing its “romantic air” (op. cit., L’esprit créateur, p. 305).