Venus Pudica

Title/s

Venus Pudica

Maker/s

Marchesi, Pompeo (sculptor) [ULAN info: Italian sculptor, 1789-1858]

Category

sculpture

Name

figure

Description

White marble, carved in the round. Reclining, partially draped figure of Venus.

Production Notes

Executed for Duca Pompeo Litta Vsconti Arese

Production Place

Milan (place)

Italy (country)

Milanese (nationality)

Italian (nationality)

Technique Description

white marble, carved

Dimensions

height: width:

Period

19th century

Date

1829

Provenance

bought: Gallery Heim 1974 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)

Carved for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese, and situated in one of the grottos of the Nymphaeum of the Villa Lainate, near Milan reputedly from a palazzo in Rome; acquired in England by Gallery Heim, London and exhibited in their Autumn Exhibition, 1972, London, Paintings and Sculpture 1770-1830.

Purchased with the Cunliffe, Perceval, and Webb Funds, aided by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, the Pilgrim Trust and a Grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Inscriptions/Marks

1. signature
   Method: inscribed
   Content: P. MARCHESI, F/MILANO 1829
   

Documentation

1. (1840) Villa Lainate, Guide, Milano [page: 20]
   [comments: Publ. Mentioned p. 20, and see note 2, where the date of the statue is given. Illustrated by a line drawing T5. See object's file for a xerox of the title page, p. 20 and illustration. The date of the Venus, is given in footnote 2 on p. 20.]
2. Vertova, Luisa (2001) Il marmo e la parola. Precisazioni su Pompeo Marchesi, Florence: Marsilio [page: pp. 702, 5-6]
   Source title: Opere e giorni. Studi su mille anni di arte europea dedicati a Max Seidel (2001 ?)
   [comments: Publ. Photograph in the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, showing the statue in a private house before it came to England. See the section of the article entitled 'La Venere 'Sorpresa' o 'Pudica' (Tipo B), pp. 702, 705-6.]
3. (1983) La Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano, Milan
   [comments: Cf. Related gessoes in La Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano, by Nicodemi and Bezzola. Cf. Venus gesso 418 (507)]

Other Notes

Accession Number

M.6-1974 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 31226; Input Date: 2001-06-29 / Last Edit: 2009-11-17)