Bacchus and Ariadne, 1711/1724

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 39.1 x 32.9 x 23.9 cm (15 3/8 x 12 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1974.18.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Foggini (sculptor) Florentine, 1652 - 1725

Image Use

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Provenance

Private collection, Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire, England;[1] (antique dealer, Brighton); purchased 1973 by (Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York); purchased 21 January 1974 by NGA.

[1] The private collector was said by the Brighton dealer to have been a "Viscount Wrexall", according to phone conversation between Doug Lewis and Michael Hall, 7 March 1974, and recorded in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Hall Fine Arts, Michael
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1974: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, no. III, repro.

1974: The Twilight of the Medici: Late Baroque Art in Florence 1670-1743, Detroit Institute of Arts; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 1974, no. 297.

1981: The Bronze Figure in Italy, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, 1981, no. 26.

2019: Plasmato dal fuoco: La scultura in bronzo nella Firenze degli ultimi Medici [Forged in Fire. Bronze sculpture in Florence under the last Medici], Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 2019 - 2020, no. 45, repro.

Bibliography

1974: Draper, James David. "Giuseppe Piamontini's 'Amore in Braccio a Venere'." Antichità vita 13, no. 6: 44-45.

1991: Bellesi, Sandro. “L’antico e i virtuosismi tardobarocchi nell’opera di Giuseppe Piamontini.” Paragone 42 no. 497 (1991): 21-38, esp. 30-31; repro. fig. 52.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 89, repro.

2003: Fogelman, Peggy, and Peter Fusco, with Marietta Cambareri. Italian and Spanish Sculpture. Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles, 2003: 244, 246 fig. 31A, 248 n. 5.

2005: Orsi, Carlo. Giuseppe Piamontini: "Il Sacrificio di Isacco" di Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Elettrice Palatina. Milan, 2005: 50-52, fig. 36.

2008: Bellesi, Sandro. I marmi di Giuseppe Piamontini. Florence, 2008: 65.

2009: Brillos en Bronce: Colecciones de Reyes, exh. cat., Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio de Oriente, Madrid, 2009-2010, Madrid, 2009: 206.