Deposition

after 1800

Antonio d’Este
Italian, 1754-1837
After a model by Antonio Canova
Italian, 1757-1822

On View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 218

Artist: Antonio D'Este
Title: Deposition
Origin: Italy
Date: 1800–1837
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 86 × 80 cm (33 7/8 × 31 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Bertha C. Loomis
Reference Number: 1966.130

Gypsotheca canoviana eretta in Possagno da Mons. Giambatista Sartori Canova, vescovo di Mindi (Bassano, Italy, n.d.), p. 4, no. 6.
Catalogo cronologico delle sculture di Antonio Canova pubblicato dietro richiesta di S.A.R. il Principe di Baviera (Rome, 1800), p. 9.
Melchior Missirini, Della vita di Antonio Canova (Prato, Italy, 1824), p. 108.
J. S. Memes, Memoirs of Antonio Canova, with a Critical Analysis of his Works and an Historical Overview of Modern Sculpture (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 573.
Alfred Gottlieb Meyer, Künstler-Monographien, Vol. 39 Canova (Leipzig, 1898), pp. 42, 98–99.
Elena Bassi, Canova (Rome, 1943), p. 23.
Elena Bassi, La Gipsoteca di Possagno: sculture e dipinti di Antonio Canova (Venice, 1957), p. 150, no. 143.
Giuseppe Pavanello, L’opera completa del Canova (Milan, 1976), p. 104, no. 115.
Guiseppe Pavanello, “Antonio d’este, amico Canova, scultore,” Antologia di belle arti 1, 35–38 (1990), pp. 20–22, no. 36.
Paolo Mariuz, “D’ESTE, Antonio,” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 39 (Rome, 1991), p. 427.
Hugh Honour, ed., Edizione Nazionale di Antonio Canova: Scritti 1 (Rome, 1994), pp. 311, 402, 410, 427.
Paolo Mariuz, ed., Antonio d’Este, Memorie di Antonio Canova, reprint (Padua, 1999), pp. xv, n. 15, 317, 373.
Lelia Packer and Jennifer Sliwka. Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, exh. cat. (London: National Gallery Company Limited/ Yale University Press, 2017), p. 131, 132, cat. 39, 133.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Canova and France,” 15 January - 20 February 1985 [no cat.].
London, The National Gallery, Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, Oct. 30, 2017-Feb. 18, 2018, cat. 39 (ill.); Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Black & White: Von Dürer bis Elíasson, Mar. 25- July 15, 2018.

Gesso modello completed by Antonio Canova, 1800; the subject was reworked in marble by Antonio d’Este for Count Antonio Widman (Widmann or Widmanio), Venice, after 1800. Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome [see photograph with gallery information in curatorial file]. Ferdinand Nagler, Vienna, by 1936 [copy of receipt in curatorial file]; sold to Bertha C. Loomis, Chicago, 1936 [see source cited above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1966.

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