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Design for a Monument to Emperor Charles VI of Naples
Baldassare De Caroca. 1735
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
An allegory of Victory crowns Charles VI on horseback. Minerva, goddess of war, leads his horse. This group is flanked by Prudence (on left) and Justice (at right) on base. Fortune and Temperance recline on top of base. Squared for transfer. Scale at bottom.
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- Title: Design for a Monument to Emperor Charles VI of Naples
- Creator: Baldassare De Caro
- Date Created: ca. 1735
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black wash, black chalk on cream laid paper.
- Provenance: Ex-collection: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Inscribed: Inscribed in blue pencil, right top corner: "23". Inscribed in pen and black ink, in the hand of the 18th century, on verso: Baldassare de Caro.
- Exhibitions: Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Golden Age of Naples," August 11 - November 1, 1981; traveled to: Chicago, Ill - Art Institute of Chicago, January 16 - March 8, 1982 (as Jacopo Cestaro).Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Museum of Art, "The Art of Decoration, Drawings and Objects from the Collection of Cooper-Hewitt," December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974.London - Victoria and Albert Museum, "An American Museum of Decorative Arts & Design: Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York," June 13 - August 12, 1973, no. 18.New York, NY - Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Drawings from New York Collections, the 18th Century in Italy," January 30 - March 21, 1971, no. 49.New York, NY - Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," February 4 - March 20, 1970, no. 36.
- Dimensions: 41.7 x 27.2 cm (16 7/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Bibliography: R.P. Wunder, Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Lambert-Spector, Inc., 1962) no. 16 (illus.)."The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," exhibition catalog (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) p. 21, no. 36 (illus.)."Drawings from New York Collections, the 18th Century in Italy," exhibition catalog (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971) p. 37-38, no. 49 (illus.)."An American Museum of Decorative Arts & Design: Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York," exhibition catalog (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973) no. 18 (illus.)."The Golden Age of Naples," exhibition catalog (Detroit and Chicago: The Detroit Institute of Arts with the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981) p. 252, no. 81 (illus.) [as Jacopo Cestaro].Renato Roli and Giancarlo Sestiere, Idisegni Italiani del Settecento (Trevisio: Liberia Editrice Canova, 1981) p. 112, pl. 190 [as Jacopo Cestaro].O. Ferrari, "Considerazioni sulle vicende artistiche a Napoli durante il viceregno austriaco (1707-1734)," Storia dell'Arte XXXV (1979) p. 24, n. 6.
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