Chiaro da Verrazzano, 17th century

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall (with base): 91.4 x 68.9 x 37.8 cm (36 x 27 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.104

Artists / Makers

Italian 17th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on front of base: M. CHIARO / DA VER

Provenance

Verrazzano family, Florence; Vai family, Florence. Ridolfi family, Florence. G. Sonnino, New York. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome). Mario Modestini, New York;[1] sold 1956 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] See letter written by (then) NGA assistant director J. Carter Brown dated 28 March 1967. In addition, a letter from F.B. Adams Jr. states that Modestini, the Kress Foundation's conservator, sold the sculpture to the Foundation and was acting on the behalf of someone in Rome.

Associated Names

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Modestini, Mario
Ridolfi
Sonnino, G.
Vai
Verrazzano

Bibliography

1956: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 238-240, no. 96, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 437, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 159.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 141, repro.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 72.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 119, repro.

1995: Giannotti, Alessandra. "'Fisso nel punto, che m'avea vinto': Girolamo Ticciati, scultore 'sicuro' nella Firenze del settecento." Atti e memorie 60, n.s. 46 (1995): 103-122, fig. 1.

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.