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Deposition

Antonio D'Este · c. 1800-1805

Analyst brief

What the record supports

Antonio D'Este's "Deposition" is a marble relief created between c. 1800 and 1805. Measuring 86 × 80 cm (33 7/8 × 31 1/2 in.), the work is classified as a relief and is part of the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department, representing Italian culture. The artist's birth and death years are 1754 and 1837, respectively.

The provenance details that a gesso modello was completed by Antonio Canova in 1800. Antonio d’Este then reworked the subject in marble for Count Antonio Widman (Widmann or Widmanio) of Venice after 1800. The relief later passed through Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome, and was acquired by Ferdinand Nagler, Vienna, by 1936. Bertha C. Loomis, Chicago, purchased it in 1936 and subsequently bequeathed it to the Art Institute in 1966.

The artwork has been included in several exhibitions, including "Canova and France" (Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), "Monochrome: Painting in Black and White" (The National Gallery, London, 2017-2018), and a related exhibition, "Canova: Sketching in Clay" (Washington, DC, and Art Institute of Chicago, 2023-2024). It has also been cited in numerous publications detailing works by Canova and D'Este. No auction prices are supplied in the catalogue data.

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Provenance

Ownership history

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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

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.
Washington, DC, Canova: Sketching in Clay, June 11–Oct. 9, 2023, not in cat. ; Art Institue of Chicago, Nov. 19, 2023 - Mar. 18, 2024 [Chicago only].

Literature

Published references

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.

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