About the Artwork
Bust of Giuseppe Bossi
1816
Antonio Canova
1757-1822
Italian
Unknown
Plaster
Overall: 37 × 18 × 15 inches (94 × 45.7 × 38.1 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
2017.19
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Daniel Katz Ltd., London, England)
2017-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, Alan P., and Lara Lea Roney. “The Reach of Antonio Canova’s ‘Angelic Hand’: A New Acquisition and Reflections of Canova’s Legacy in European Neoclassical Sculpture,” Bulletin of the DIA 94, no. 1 (2020): pp. 74-91 (fig. 1-4).
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Antonio Canova, Bust of Giuseppe Bossi, 1816, plaster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2017.19.
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