La Zingara (Gipsy)
possibly Christopher Hewetson (Thomastown c. 1736 - Rome 1798)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1793
Materials
Marble on marble socle
Measurements
630 x 300 x 200 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732908
Summary
Marble bust on marble socle, La Zingara (Gipsy), possibly Christopher Hewetson (Thomastown 1737 - Rome 1798). After the antique, based on the full-length statue La Zingara which was originally in the collection of the Villa Borghese in Rome, called Diana in 1556 by Aldrovandi and an 'Egyptian Woman' in 1638, It was purchased by Napoleon with the bulk of the Borghese antiquities, was transferred to the Louvre and is now on deposit in the Versailles Museum. Formerly thought to be of Princess Luise of Mecklenberg, later Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810) by Johann Gottfried Schadow (Berlin 1764 – Berlin 1850). Princess Luise married Frederick William III, King of Prussia. The features are similar to those of the group sculpture by Schadow of Princess Luise with Princess Frederike of Prussia, 1795/97 in the National Gallery, Berlin. The head slightly turned to left, wearing a tiara and drapery tied round the chin, the bust clothed, turned socle.
Makers and roles
possibly Christopher Hewetson (Thomastown c. 1736 - Rome 1798), sculptor previously catalogued as attributed to Johann Gottfried Schadow (Berlin 1764 – Berlin 1850), sculptor
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, no. 95