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Artworks
Giuseppe Rusconi (1687-1737)
Beatrice Caracciolo (1615-1703) , Commissioned 18 July 1730Bronze
Inscribed ‘D. BEATRIX CARACCIOLO / DVCISSA MARTINAE / OBIT DIE XII IVNII MDCCIII/ AETATIS ANNOR LXXXVII MENS VII DIER XX’ on the gilt-bronze cartouche to the front of the base; and ‘ROMA’ to the reverse84 cm. highFurther images
Provenance
Commissioned by Cardinal Innico Caracciolo (1642-1730) in July 1730;
by descent to his nephew, Don Francesco Maria
Caracciolo (1674-1752), 9th duke of Martina and 9th Count of Buccino;
by descent until the last branch of the Caracciolo Cicinelli family, Don Gennaro Caracciolo Cicinelli (1789-1853);
by descent to Don Lorenzo d’Ardia (1834-1905), 10th Prince of Cursi and 10th Duke of Grottaglie;
by descent within the d’Ardia family;
acquired by a private collector, United Kingdom in 2018;
from whom acquired by Lullo • Pampoulides in 2022.
Literature
Anne-Lise Desmas, Le ciseau et la tiare: les sculpteurs dans la Rome des papes, 1724 – 1758, Rome 2012, pp. 251 and 401-402, annexe 8.1;
Anne-Lise Desmas, entry in La Grande Bellezza. L’Art à Rome au XVIIIe siècle, 1700-1758, catalogue of the exhibition (Ajaccio, Palais Fesch - Musée des Beaux-Arts) ed. by Andrea Bacchi, Liliana Barroero, Philippe Costamagna, Andrea Zanella, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) 2020, p. 224, cat. no. 117.
SOLD TO THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
SOLD TO THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
