Venus Plucking the Wings of Cupid

1745/1746

Gaspero Bruschi, Artist Massimiliano Soldani, Artist Doccia Porcelain Factory, Manufacturer

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Florence, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Venus Plucking the Wings of Cupid

Artwork Date 1745/1746

Makers Gaspero Bruschi (Artist) Italian, 1701-1780 Massimiliano Soldani (Artist) Italian, 1656-1740 Doccia Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) Italian

Medium Hard-paste porcelain on original gilt wood base

Dimensions Overall: 14 5/8 × 13 1/2 × 9 inches (37.1 × 34.3 × 22.9 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council and the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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. 1990.246

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Prince Umberto of Savoy, King of Italy (Lisbon, Portugal);
October 2, 1969, sold by (Christie's, Geneva, Switzerland);
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

Highly Important Ormolu Mounted Porcelain Meissen, Capodimonte, French, German, and Italian Porcelain. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. Geneva, October 2, 1969, lot 88.

Montagu, J. "Massimiliano Soldani's Venus Plucking the Wings of Cupid." Bulletin of the National Gallery of Canada 24 (1974): pp. 31-33, no. 12.

Lankheit, K. Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia, ein Dokument Italienischier Barockplastik. Munich, 1982 (fig. 116).

"Selected recent acquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 66, no. 4 (1991): p. 50 (ill.).

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, p. 13 (fig. 2).

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 and International Symposium, ed. J. Hofler. Ljubljana, October 16-18, 1998, 2000, pp. 96, 98-99 (fig. 13).

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. II, cat. 155.

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 Massimiliano Soldani; Doccia Porcelain Factory, Venus Plucking the Wings of Cupid, 1745/1746, hard-paste porcelain on original gilt wood base. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council and the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1990.246.