id: 143645 accession number: 1968.101 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.101 updated: 2020-11-04 21:08:00.965000 Head of Proserpina, 1650- 1700. After Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598-1680). Terracotta; overall: 15.2 x 10.3 cm (6 x 4 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1968.101 title: Head of Proserpina title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1650- 1700 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1700 current location: 301 Baroque Sculpture Mezzanine creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 17th century technique: terracotta department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598-1680) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 15.2 x 10.3 cm (6 x 4 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: penciled inscription on neck: "Palazzo Bernini / 1839" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Baroque Imagery opening date: 1984-11-06T05:00:00 Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985). title: Gian Lorenzo Bernini Regista del Barocco opening date: 1999-05-20T00:00:00 Gian Lorenzo Bernini Regista del Barocco. Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, Italy (organizer) (May 20-September 16, 1999). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * "Mostra de antiche sculture italiane," Studio d'arte Palma, Rome, 1945 (cited by Lavin, 1956)
CMA: "Year in Review for 1968," Bulletin, LVI (January 1969), p. 44, no. 12, repr. p. 4
CMA: "Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany," as circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982
Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, April 16-May 16, 1982, cat. 1, p. 17, repr. pp. 16, 18
CMA: Baroque Imagery," cat. 24, pp. 53-54, repr. p. 53
Rome, Italy; Palazzo Venezia (5/20-9/16/99) "Gian Lorenzo Bernini Regista del Barocco" p. 82, no. 27, p. 315, no. 27. --- PROVENANCE Heirs of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Rome, Italy); date: footnotes: citations: Buseri (Rome, Italy) [sold, Sotheby's, 16 May 1968, no. 103, to Herbert N. Bier); date: footnotes: citations: Herbert N. Bier (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This work was long thought to be a fragment of a preliminary study for a large-scale marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome depicting Pluto, the god of the underworld, dragging Proserpina away to be his wife. Bernini’s finished studies never had the scrape marks visible on the cheek, indicating another sculptor’s hand. The work was owned by Bernini’s family, and his many studio assistants often copied his work. This terracotta therefore may be by one of the more significant sculptors of this group. The subject conveys fleeting expressions of sadness, fear, and surprise, and would have interested sculptors learning to convey complex emotions. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: page number: url: 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. 135 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n155 Simonato, Lucia. Bernini Scultore: Il Difficile Dialogo con la Modernità. Milano: Electa, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 127 & p.135 Reproduced: p. 128, fig. 45 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.101/1968.101_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.101/1968.101_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.101/1968.101_full.tif