Pudicity (after the Antique)
possibly Pietro Chiapparelli (fl. late 19th century)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1862
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
570 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Hill Top, Cumbria
NT 642037
Summary
Bronze, Pudicity (after the Antique), possibly Pietro Chiapparelli (fl. Rome 1862). The original statue, of the last first century AD, also known as Livia or Faustina, was in the Mattei collection in Rome since the end of the sixteenth century and recorded in 1704. It was sold to Pope Clement XIV in 1770 and is now in the Vatican museum. Horace Walpole had a copy made by Filippo della Valle in 1740-1 in memory of his mother, Carherine, which was erected in Westminster Abbey.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Beatrix Potter, Mrs William Heelis (1866 - 1943)
Credit line
Hill Top, The Beatrix Potter Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
possibly Pietro Chiapparelli (fl. late 19th century), artist Alberto Dressler, artist
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 74