Portrait of a Lady

ca. 1789

Giovanni Battista Nini Italian, 1717-1786

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Lady

Artwork Date ca. 1789

Artist Giovanni Battista Nini

Life Dates 1717-1786

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 15/16 × 5 11/16 inches (2.4 × 14.4 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of J. Patrice Marandel in memory of Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr.

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. F1986.123

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Inscriptions Inscribed, across the bottom of the portrait figure: I.B.NINI.F

Provenance

Von Kalckreuth (Berlin, Germany);
J. Patrice Marandel (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1986-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Storelli, M. Jean Baptiste Nini. Tours, 1896, pp. 147-148, no. XC.

Forrer, L. Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. London, 1909, vol. 4, p. 273.

Lami, S. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'ecole francaise au dix-huitieme siecle, 2 vols. Paris, 1910-1911, vol. 2, p. 195.

Cerboni Baiardi, A. and B. Sibille. Giovan Battista Nini. Da Urbino alle rive della Loira. Paesaggi e volti europi. Urbino, 2001, pp. 154-160, nos. 40-42.

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. 208.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Giovanni Battista Nini, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1789, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of J. Patrice Marandel in memory of Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr., F1986.123.