ANTONIO CANOVA (POSSAGNO 1757-1822 VENICE), 1816-17

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Lot 33 | ANTONIO CANOVA (POSSAGNO 1757-1822 VENICE), 1816-17
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ANTONIO CANOVA (POSSAGNO 1757-1822 VENICE), 1816-17

Bust of Helen

marble; on a circular marble socle; the reverse inscribed ‘VICECOMITI . CASTELREGHIO / VIRO . PRESTANTISSIMO / ANTONIVS . CANOVA / FECIT . AC . D. D.'

19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm.) high; 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm.) high, overall





Provenance

Given by the artist to Robert, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822, later 2nd Marquess of Londonderry), and thence by descent.



Literature

D. Williams, The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence Kt, London, 1831, I, pp. 352-353.

G. Pavanello, L’opera completa del Canova, Milan, 1976, no. 287, p. 127.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Canova – Ideal Heads, 11 July – 14 September, K. Eustace ed., no. 4, pp. 74-75, 84-85.

Alessio Costarelli, Canova e gli Inglese, Milan, 2022, no. 38, fig. 44 (but illustrating an incorrect version of Helen).



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Isabella Albrizzi, The Works of Antonio Canova, in Sculpture and Modelling, London, 1824, II.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Age of Neo-Classicism, 1972, no. 321.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Canova – Ideal Heads, 11 July – 14 September, K. Eustace ed., no. 4, pp. 74-75, 84-85.
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