Monsignor Francesco Barberini

Gian Lorenzo Berninic. 1623

Details

Title: Monsignor Francesco Barberini
Creator: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Date Created: c. 1623
Physical Dimensions: overall with base: 80.01 x 65.88 x 25.72 cm (31 1/2 x 25 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.) overall without base: 60.96 x 65.88 x 25.72 cm (24 x 25 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.) base: 19.05 x 21.27 x 18.42 cm (7 1/2 x 8 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Provenance: Cardinal Francesco Barberini [1597-1679], Rome; Palazzo Barberini alle Quatro Fontaine, Rome, by 1627; transferred 1635 to the Barberini's Palazzo alla Cancelleria, Rome; returned to Palazzo Barberini alle Quatro Fontane, Rome, until at least 1948;[1] sold to (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold July 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] For these details of the Barberini family's ownership, see Catherine Hess' entry in _Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture_, exh. cat., The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2008-2009, Los Angeles, 2008: 125-128. Documents in NGA curatorial files indicate that the Barberini family was attempting to sell the sculpture as early as April 1948. [2] See the contract between Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi and the Kress Foundation for the purchase of 125 paintings and one sculpture (NGA 1961.9.102), formally ratified 6 July 1950 (copy in NGA curatorial files).
Medium: marble

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