Winged Victory, c. 1803/1806

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G9

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall (with base): 76.6 x 20 x 18.1 cm (30 3/16 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
gilded globe (diameter): 10.2 cm (4 in.)
overall (figure height from left big toe to top of head): 38 cm (14 15/16 in.)
overall (figure height from left big toe to right wing tip): 53.3 cm (21 in.)
overall (figure height from left big toe to left wing tip): 51.8 cm (20 3/8 in.)
base (height): 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1991.125.1

Artists / Makers

Antonio Canova (sculptor) Italian, 1757 - 1822

the Antique (artist after)

Image Use

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Provenance

Art market, London, 1980s;[1] (Daniel Katz, London);[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1990, no. 139); (Anthony Roth, London); (Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York); purchased 7 June 1991 by NGA.

[1] A telephone message from Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1991 (in NGA curatorial files), reports that the bronze was acquired from an unidentified antiques dealer in King's Road, London.

[2] According to Nicholas Penny, in notes recorded October 2004 when Daniel Katz visited the NGA, Katz consigned the sculpture to the 1990 sale and he [Katz] thought that Roth was the purchaser; notes in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Art market, London
Hall Fine Arts, Michael
Sotheby's, London

Bibliography

1992: National Gallery of Art. 1991 Annual Report. Washington, D.C., 1992: 16.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 41, repro.

2000: Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 58-63, color repro.