A Venetian Ecclesiastic, third quarter 17th century

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 10

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 75.5 x 64.1 x 32.7 cm (29 3/4 x 25 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Vernon Taylor Fund

Accession Number

1978.42.1

Artists / Makers

Giusto Le Court (artist) Flemish, 1627 - 1679

Image Use

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Provenance

(Heim Gallery, London), by 1976;[1] purchased 21 June 1978 by NGA.

[1] Italian Paintings and Sculptures of the 17th and 18th Century [10th Annual Summer Exhibition], The Heim Gallery, London, 1976: no. 28, repro. The sale is recorded in the index card file of objects sold (Getty Research Institute, Heim Gallery Records, Box 107), with reference to invoice no. 03178.

Associated Names

Heim Gallery Ltd.

Exhibition History

1976: Italian Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th and 18th centuries [Tenth Summer Exhibition], Heim Gallery, London, no. 28, repro.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 130, repro.

1999: Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.

2006: Bacchi, Andrea. "'Le cose più belle e principali nelle chiese di Venezia sono opere sue': Giusto Le Court a Santa Maria della Salue (e altrove)." Nuovi studi 11, no. 12 (2006): 154.

2009: Guerriero, Simone. "Per un repertorio della scultura veneta del Sei e Settecento.I." Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte 33 (2009): 205-292, esp. 207, 224-225 (repro).

2010: Tulic, Damir. "A Venetian Ecclesiastic: A Sculpture by Giovanni Bonazza from the National Gallery of Art in Washington." Zbornik za umetnostno zgodovino 46 (2010): 252-262, fig. 1, as by Giovanni Bonazza.

2011: Guerriero, Simone. "La prima attività di Giovanni Bonazza." Arte Veneta 67 (2011): 72-101, esp. 84, 96 fig. 36, 101 n. 46.