Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, c. 1690

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 79.5 x 73.2 x 40 cm (31 5/16 x 28 13/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.129

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Foggini (sculptor) Florentine, 1652 - 1725

Image Use

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Provenance

Capponi collection, Florence. (Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence); (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5-7 June 1899, 1st day, no. 387, as Bust of Cosimo III de' Medici by Bernini); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 5 December 1900 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] Date of purchase according to Widener collection cards in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bardini, Stefano
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Exhibition History

1974: The Twilight of the Medici: Late Baroque Art in Florence 1670-1743, Detroit Institute of Arts; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 1974, no. 31 (shown only in Detroit).

2006: La principessa saggia. L'eredita di Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici Elettrice Palatina., Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, 2006-2007, no. 3, repro.

Bibliography

1948: Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 129, repro., as Italian 17th Century.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 155.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 138, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 639, no. 1003, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 90, 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.

2008: Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 478-479.