Virtues Crowning the Bust of Canova

1812

Michele Sangiorgi

Artist, Italian, died 1822

Michele Sangiorgi

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.88 × 68.58 cm (18 1/16 × 27 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.49.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Bologna; (Cortona Fine Art, Milan); purchased 2023 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2022

  • Bellezza & Bizzarria, Cortona Fine Art, Milan, 2022, no.8 (cat. entry by Francesco Leone).

2023

  • Michele Sangiorgi Ineditus, Cortona Fine Art, Milan, 2023, no.1.

Bibliography

2022

  • Leone, Francesco. Antonio Canova: la vita e l'opera. Rome, 2022: 520 and fig. 261.

  • Leone, Francesco, and S. Grandesso. Canova e il dolore: Le stelle Mellerio e il rinoovamento della rappresentazione sepolcrale. Treviso, 2022: no. 33.

Inscriptions

in image in pen and brown ink: ALLA GLORIA / ANTONIO CANOVA; lower center in pen and brown ink: VIRTUS TRIUMPH

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