About the Artwork
Pope Alexander VIII
between 1691 and 1700
Attributed to Lorenzo Ottoni
1658-1736
Italian
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Marble
Overall (bust): 24 3/4 × 24 1/2 × 15 3/4 inches, 180 pounds (62.9 × 62.2 × 40 cm, 81.6 kg) Including base: 30 inches × 24 1/2 inches × 15 3/4 inches (76.2 × 62.2 × 40 cm) Overall (socle): 6 3/4 inches (17.1 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund
37.141
Public Domain
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Provenance
1937, sold by (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, USA) Elenore J. Mortimer Sale, no. 172;1937-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) through F. Kleinberger & Co. (New York, New York, USA)
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Pascoli, L. Vite de pittori, scultori, e architetti viventi (dai manuscritti 1383 e 1743 della Biblioteca Communale 'Augusta'di Perugia), ed. V. Martinelli. Turin, 1981, p. 214.
Spike, J. T. Barque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections. Exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum. Sarasota and Hartford, 1984, p. 166 and appendix no. 11, p. 205 (ill.) [as attributed to Domenico Guidi].
Olszewski, E.J. "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) in America." Journal of the History of Collections 1, no. 1 (1989): pp. 37, 39 (fig. 8).
Fusco, P. "A Portrait medallion of Pope Alexander VIII by Lorenzo Ottoni in J. Paul Getty Museum." The Burlington Magazine 139 (1997): pp. 872-876.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, II, cat. 142.
Giometti, Cristiano. "Il Modello del Battesimo di Domenico Guidi e proposte per una committenza Albani a Guidi e Ottoni." Studi Sul Settecento Romano 19 (2003): pp. 51-65.
Brunetti, Vittoria. "Ritratti papali di Lorenzo Ottoni: l'Urbano VIII di Pesaro, l'Innocenzo XII di Ancona e il Clemente XI di Bologna." Annali della Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon 15, no. 7 (2015): p. 285.
Brunetti, Vittoria. "Gianfrancesco Albani, Lorenzo Ottoni e le Marche." In Il Cardinale Gianfrancesco Albani e le arti tra Roma e Urbino: il ritratto ritrovato, ed. Lucia Simonato. Milan, 2017, pp. 97–99 (ill.).
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attributed to Lorenzo Ottoni, Pope Alexander VIII, between 1691 and 1700, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund, 37.141.
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