id: 318562 accession number: 2018.257 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.257 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:20.953000 Sleeping Christ Child, c. 1675. Filippo Parodi (Italian, 1630–1702). Marble; 63 x 102 x 42 cm (24 13/16 x 40 3/16 x 16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2018.257 title: Sleeping Christ Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1675 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1680 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: marble department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Filippo Parodi (Italian, 1630–1702) - artist --- measurements: 63 x 102 x 42 cm (24 13/16 x 40 3/16 x 16 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Likely commissioned by Giovanni Luca Durazzo [1628–1679] around 1675, for the Palazzo Balbi Durazzo (now Palazzo Reale), Genoa date: c. 1675 footnotes: citations: By descent to his grandson, Marcello Durazzo [1710–1791], Palazzo Balbi Durazzo, Genoa date: by 1769 footnotes: citations: Marquis Gerolamo Serra [1761–1837], Genoa date: by 1837 footnotes: citations: Purchased by Vicomte Hippolyte Vilain XIIII, December 25, 1844, for 800 “Lira di Francia” date: 1844 footnotes: citations: Charles Hippolyte Vilain XIIII [1796–1873] date: footnotes: citations: Private collection, Belgium, and by descent date: footnotes: citations: Artcurial, Paris. Mobilier et objets d'art. May 16, 2017. Lot 158 date: 2017 footnotes: citations: (Danny Katz, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2017-2018 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2018- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Tender images of the Christ child sleeping encouraged devout Christians to meditate on Christ’s humanity. digital description: wall description: Christ—no longer an infant, but a young child—sprawls on a bed of straw, his head thrown back in slumber and his right arm dangling. The simple radiance framing his head indicates his divinity. Representations of the sleeping Christ child were enduringly popular, not only because of the subject’s inherent charm, but sleep, as a metaphor for death, encouraged pious Christians to meditate on Christ’s humanity and his eventual suffering and death. Filippo Parodi’s Sleeping Christ Child beguiles with lifelike detail. Parodi used varying degrees of polish to differentiate surface textures: Christ’s body is burnished to a soft gleam, while his hair and the straw are more roughly carved, absorbing rather than reflecting the light. Parodi exploited the sensuous and tactile possibilities of the marble to enhance the emotional impact of his piece, a tactic learned from the master of Italian Baroque sculpture, Gianlorenzo Bernini. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Soprani, Raffaele, and Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi. 2 vols. Genova: Nella stamperia Casamara, 1768-69. page number: Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 58 url: Palais du Duc de Brabant, Brussels. Exposition de tableaux et d'objets d'art et de haute curiosité ouverte au profit des pauvres, seconde partie: objets d'art. Brussels: G. Stapleaux, 1855. page number: Mentioned: p. 20, no. 118 url: Rotondi Briasco, Paola. Filippo Parodi. Genova: Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Università, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 103 url: Milano, Carlo. In Da Tintoretto a Rubens. Capolavori della Collezione Durazzo, 310-311. Luca Leoncini et al. Exh. Cat. Genoa: Palazzo Reale, Genoa, in association with Milan: Skira, 2004. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 310-311, no. 53 url: Mariangela Bruno and Daniele Sanguinetti, “Filippo Parodi,” Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 81 (2014) page number: n.p. url: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/filippo-parodi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Artcurial, Paris. Mobilier et objets d'art. May 16, 2017. Lot 158 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 86-88 url: Pave-Mazzi, Olivier. "Une Sculpture De Parodi Pour Le Cleveland Museum of Art." L'Object D'Art, 553 (2019): 21 page number: Reproduced and mentioned; p.21 url: Griswold, William M. “From the Director.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 3. page number: Reproduced: P. 3. url: Wieseman, Marjorie E. “Acquisitions 2018: European Paintings and Sculpture, 1500-1800.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 14-15. page number: Reproduced: P. 14; Mentioned: P. 15. url: "Apollo awards 2019 acquisition of the year: shortlist." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts 190, no. 681 (December 2019):62. page number: reproduced: p. 62 url: Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 95, no. 4; mentioned: P. 93 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.257/2018.257_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.257/2018.257_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.257/2018.257_full.tif