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Giovanni Baratta
Allegorical Figure of Prudence, from Palazzo Giugni, Florencecirca 1703-1708

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Model Lives in Baroque Italy
Full-length white marble sculpture of a standing female figure, twisting dynamically, raising a hand mirror overhead while grasping a serpentine form, with deeply carved billowing drapery
Artist or Maker
Giovanni Baratta
Italy, Carrara, 1670-1747
Title
Allegorical Figure of Prudence, from Palazzo Giugni, Florence
Date Made
circa 1703-1708
Medium
White carrara marble
Dimensions
Figure: 71 5/8 × 29 × 22 in. (181.93 × 73.66 × 55.88 cm) Base: 41 1/4 × 31 × 22 in. (104.78 × 78.74 × 55.88 cm)
Credit Line
GIft of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2011.81.2
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Commissioned from the artist ca. 1703–4 by Niccolò Maria Giugni (1672–1717),(1) Palazzo Giugni, Florence, by descent to; Niccolò Giugni (1714–1775), by descent to; Doria Colonna family, who purchased the palace and most of its contents in 1830, to; the Fraschetti family, who purchased the palace and its contents in 1893, sold by 1904 through; [Gustavo Volterra and Adele Melli, Florence, to]; James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925), Duke Farms, Somerville, NJ, by descent to; Doris Duke (1912–1993) (sale, Morristown, NJ, Millea Brothers Auction House, 3 May 2009, lots 836, 837 to); [Trinity Fine Art Ltd., London, sold 2011 to]; LACMA.

Footnote

(1) Inventario dei beni di Niccolò Giugni presenti alla sua morte nel palazzo di via degli Alfani a Firenze, 1775. Archivio di Stato, Florence, Magistrato dei Pupili del Principate, 2701, nos. 166-253.

Selected Bibliography
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.