Antinous

between 1745 and 1748

Attributed to Gaspero Bruschi , Artist After a model by Willem Danielsz Tetrode , Artist Doccia Porcelain Factory , Manufacturer

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European: Influence of Ancient Greeks and Romans, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Antinous

Artwork Date between 1745 and 1748

Makers Attributed to Gaspero Bruschi (Artist) Italian, 1701-1780 After a model by Willem Danielsz Tetrode (Artist) Netherlandish, 1505-1575 Doccia Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) Italian

Medium Hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions Overall: 16 1/4 × 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (41.3 × 19.1 × 12.1 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1990.251

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purchased by Leonardo Lapicciarella (Florence, Italy);
sold by (Armin B. Allen, London, England and New York, New York, USA);
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Darr, A.P. "The Figure Revisited: Early Doccia Porcelain Sculptures in Detroit and its Development" in 18th-Century Italy, in The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar. London, June 1994.

Darr, A.P. "Innovations during the twilight of Florence: eighteenth century sculpture in Doccia porcelain" in Francesco Robba and the Venitian Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century: Papers from an International Symposium, Ljubljana, 16th-18th October 1998, ed. J. Hofler. Rokus, 2000, pp. 96, 99 (fig. 4).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, vol. 2, cat. 158.

Darr, Alan Phipps. "The Doccia Porcelain Sculpture Collection in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Amici di Doccia, Quaderni, no. 8 (2014-2015): pp. 32–84; pp. 40–41 (ill.).

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attributed to Gaspero Bruschi; after a model by Willem Danielsz Tetrode; Doccia Porcelain Factory, Antinous, between 1745 and 1748, hard-paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1990.251.