id: 143775
accession number: 1968.212
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Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry), 1816. Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822). Marble; overall: 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm (69 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1968.212
title: Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry)
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creation date: 1816
creation date earliest: 1816
creation date latest: 1816
current location: 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture: Italy, 19th century
technique: marble
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm (69 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 24 in.)
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inscription: inscribed on front of column: "Terpsichore Lyran" [Terpsichore as the Muse of lyric poetry]; inscribed at base of column: "Canova Fact: 1816"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1968
opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
title: Canova: Sketching in Clay
opening date: 2023-06-11T04:00:00
Canova: Sketching in Clay. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (June 11-October 9, 2023) https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2023/canova-sketching-in-clay.html.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1817).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Simon H. Clarke, 9th Bt., 1764-1832 (Oak Hill, East Barnet, England);
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Alfred de Rothschild, 1842-1918 (Halton, Buckinghamshire, England), by inheritance to his nephew, Lionel de Rothschild, 1918;
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Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, 1882-1942 (Exbury, Hampshire, England), 1918-1942, by inheritance to his first son, Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 1942;
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Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, born 1916 (Exbury, Hampshire, England), sold to Wildenstein & Co., 1963;
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Wildenstein & Co. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1968-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Teotochi Albrizzi, Isabella, Leopoldo Cicognara, and Henry Moses. The Works of Antonio Canova: In Sculpture and Modelling. London: S. Prowett, 1824.
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Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 1 (1969): 3-50.
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url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152250.
Honour, Hugh. "Canova's Statue of a Dancer." The National Gallery of Canada Bulletin Vol. 6, no. 1 (November 1968): 4-31.
page number: Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 4
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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. 164
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n188
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LVI (September 1969): 287-302.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 288-290, 292, 295
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L'opera completa del Canova. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1976.
page number: Reproduced: p.119, no. 212
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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. 203
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n223
Licht, Fred, and David Finn. Canova. New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 210-213
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Borowitz, Helen O. The Impact of Art on French Literature: From De Scudéry to Proust. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1985.
page number: Mentioned: p. 57; Reproduced: p. 58
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Donley, Gregory M, "A Discerning Eye", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 05, May 1999
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-05/page/n5
Weisser, Silja Mareke. Der Tanz als Darstellungsproblem der Skulptur im 19. Jahrhundert: unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Interdependenz zwischen Ballett und Skulptur. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 281; Reproduced: p. 301
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 56; Mentioned: p. 117
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Franklin, David. Director's Choice: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 50-51
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Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 224-225
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 286
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Dickerson, C. D., Antonio Canova, Emerson Bowyer, Anthony Sigel, and Elyse Nelson. Canova: Sketching in Clay. Washington : National Gallery of Art ; [Chicago, Illinois] : The Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
page number: Mentioned; pp. 46-47; Reproduced; p. 46, Fig. 26; pl. 41
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