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‘Un Buste de Venus d’un Amethiste ancienne’: discovering the Italian origins of an object in the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 388-390
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Reviewer:
Geiger, Maureen Cassidy (Geiger, Maureen Cassidy)
Subjects
artists:
LePlat, Raymond
collectors and dealers:
Gualtieri, Filippo Antonio, Cardinal
dates:
1650-1699
museums and institutions:
Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, Germany
subjects:
Sculpture / Busts / Pietre Dure / Bronzes / Venus / Provenance / Correspondence / Inventories / Collections, Public
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Letter from Raymond LePlat to Augustus the Strong with a sketch of the Gualtieri bust of Venus. 1728 (Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Dresden, Loc. 380/4, Lettres du Baron Leplat pendant son voyage pour Rome, concernant l'achât des statues en 1716-1730, et sans date, fol.82v)
Attributed works:
7. Plan of the Gualtieri collection in Palazzo Manfroni, Rome, by Raymond LePlat(?). 1728 (Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Dresden, Loc. 380/4, Lettres du Baron Leplat pendant son voyage pour Rome, concernant l'achât des statues en 1716-1730, et sans date, fols.154v-155r)
Western art unattributed:
5. Bust of Venus. Florence, late 17th century(?). (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe, inv. no. V 592)
Western art unattributed:
8. Memoire de ce qui est contenu dans chaque Cabinet du Palais du defunt Cardinal Gualtieri. 1728. (Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Dresden, Loc. 380/4, Lettres du Baron Leplat pendant son voyage pour Rome, concernant l'achât des statues en 1716-1730, et sans date, fols.178v-179r)