id: 143775 accession number: 1968.212 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.212 updated: 2025-07-02 07:18:05.301000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1816 creation date earliest: 1816 creation date latest: 1816 current location: 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 19th century technique: marble department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm (69 7/8 x 30 3/4 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed on front of column: "Terpsichore Lyran" [Terpsichore as the Muse of lyric poetry]; inscribed at base of column: "Canova Fact: 1816" translation: remark: --- 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. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1817).', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE Simon H. Clarke, 9th Bt., 1764-1832 (Oak Hill, East Barnet, England); date: footnotes: citations: Alfred de Rothschild, 1842-1918 (Halton, Buckinghamshire, England), by inheritance to his nephew, Lionel de Rothschild, 1918; date: footnotes: citations: Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, 1882-1942 (Exbury, Hampshire, England), 1918-1942, by inheritance to his first son, Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 1942; date: footnotes: citations: Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, born 1916 (Exbury, Hampshire, England), sold to Wildenstein & Co., 1963; date: footnotes: citations: Wildenstein & Co. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1968- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Teotochi Albrizzi, Isabella, Leopoldo Cicognara, and Henry Moses. The Works of Antonio Canova: In Sculpture and Modelling. London: S. Prowett, 1824. page number: url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 1 (1969): 3-50. page number: 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 url: 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 url: L'opera completa del Canova. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p.119, no. 212 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. 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 224-225 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.212/1968.212_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.212/1968.212_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.212/1968.212_full.tif