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accession number: 1965.471
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Baptism of Christ, designed 1645–46, probably made 1650–55. Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654). Bronze; overall: 62.5 x 46.8 x 33.4 cm (24 5/8 x 18 7/16 x 13 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1965.471
title: Baptism of Christ
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creation date: designed 1645–46, probably made 1650–55
creation date earliest: 1645
creation date latest: 1646
current location: 217 Italian Baroque
creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: Italy, 17th century
technique: bronze
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 62.5 x 46.8 x 33.4 cm (24 5/8 x 18 7/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions
opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00
Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).
title: Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections
opening date: 1998-02-08T00:00:00
Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-April 12, 1998).
title: Alessandro Algardi: Lo scultore e i suoi committenti nella Roma del Seicento (Alessandro Algardi: The Sculpture and His Clients in Seventeenth-century Rome)
opening date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00
Alessandro Algardi: Lo scultore e i suoi committenti nella Roma del Seicento (Alessandro Algardi: The Sculpture and His Clients in Seventeenth-century Rome). Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (January 20-April 30, 1999).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Sculpture. London, United Kingdom, P. & D. Colnaghi Co., Ltd. (1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Franzoni (Fransone, Franzone) Family (Genoa, Italy);
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Charles Butler (Warren Wood, England); by inheritance to his heirs;
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C. H. A. Butler, his grandson (Shortgrove, Newport, Essex, England) (sold, Christie's, London, June 2, 1964, lot no. 66, to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.)
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P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Corazzini, Giuseppe Odoardo. Memorie Storiche della Famiglia Fransoni. Firenze: Giuliani, 1873.
page number: Mentioned: P. 73
url: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_yFgW0q9jcEMC
Lee, Sherman E. "Goldlen Anniversary Acquisitions." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIII, no. 9 (September, 1966):181-285.
page number: Reproduced: p. 218; Mentioned: p. 277, no. 16
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Burton, Richard. "Fifty Years of Cleveland: Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." The Connoisseur CLXIII (October 1966): 128-135.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 132-133, fig. 12
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” June 22, 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1491
Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." ARTNews (September 1966): 30-44, 62-64.
page number: Mentioned: P. 43; reproduced: P. 44
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"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXX, no. 1 (Spring 1967): 63-89.
page number: Reproduced: P. 68; mentioned: P. 68
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 115
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n139
Raggio, Olga. "Alessandro Algardi e gli Stucchi di Villa Pamphili." Paragone: Mensile di Arte Figurativa e Letteratura XXII, no. 251 (January 1971): 3-38.
page number: Mentioned: P. 17; P. 35, n. 87, 88
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Montagu, Jennifer. "Le Bapteme du Christ d'Alessandro Algardi." Revue de l'Art 15 (1972): 64-78.
page number: Reproduced: P. 65, fig. 1; P. 67, fig. 6; P. 70, fig. 10; P. 71, fig. 16
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Theuerkauff, Christian. Zu Francis van Bossuit (1635-1692), "beeldsnyder in yvoor". Köln: M. Dumont Schauberg, 1975.
page number: Reproduced: P. 129, abb. 17
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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Kunst des Barock in der Toskana: Studien zur Kunst unter den letzten Medici. München: Bruckmann, 1976.
page number: Mentioned: P. 132-133; P. 135, n. 34
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 139
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n159
Olsen, Harald. Ældre udenlandsk skulptur. København, Denmark: Statens Museum for Kunst, 1980.
page number: Mentioned: p. 14, vol. I; Reproduced: pl. 88, vol. II
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The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art: N.H. Abrams, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 88, no. 30
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Montagu, Jennifer. "Alessandro Algardi's Saint Peter and Saint Paul and the Patronage of the Franzoni Family." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts LXI, no. 1-2 (Summer 1983): 18-29.
page number: Mentioned: P. 20
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Montagu, Jennifer. Alessandro Algardi. New Haven, CT: Published in association with the J. Paul Getty Trust by Yale University Press, 1985.
page number: Reproduced: p. 311-312, pl. 67; Details: p. 80, figs. 74-76, vol. I
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Lavoie, Francine. Dessins italiens du XVIIe siècle du Musée des Offices de Florence = Italian XVIIth-century drawings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Montréal, Ontario: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: p. 82
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Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Thesis Ph.D., Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University,1986.
page number: Reproduced: p. 47
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La Scultura a Genova e in Liguria. Genova, Italy: Fratelli Pagano, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: vol. II, p. 96, fig. 85
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Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: no. 21
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Bergman, Robert P., Diane DeGrazia, and Stephen N. Fliegel. Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections : an Exhibition in Honor of the Sesquicentenary of the Diocese of Cleveland. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 111, no. 36
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Ferrari, Oreste, and Serenita Papaldo. Le sculture del Seicento a Roma. Roma, Italy: Ugo Bozzi, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 588
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Montagu, Jennifer. Algardi: l'altra faccia del barocco : Roma, Palazzo delle esposizioni, 21 gennaio-30 aprile 1999. Roma, Italy: Edizioni De Luca, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 165, no. 32
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 39; Mentioned: p. 117
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