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Lot 846 Dα

Giacomo Caneva - Sculptures, Vatican Museums

Auction 1161 - overview Cologne
07.12.2020, 17:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.600 € - 1.800 €
Result: 1.625 € (incl. premium)
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Giacomo Caneva

Sculptures, Vatican Museums
1848 - 1852

7 salt paper prints, each printed from paper negative. From 18.5 x 8.9 cm to 20.5 x 24.4 cm (portrait and landscape formats). Each signed in oil pastel on the verso. Each mounted to original card, annotated in an unknown hand in pencil below the image on the mount.

The sculptures: Arianna, Hercules, Hercules and Telephos, Venus in the Bath, Putto strangling a Goose, Caryatid, Moses (Michelangelo, San Pietro in Vincoli)

Caneva was, as Francesca Bonetti suspects, probably the first photographer to document the sculpture collections in the Vatican and the Capitoline Museums with his camera. He included this picture of the sleeping Ariadne in the portfolio Roma in Fotografia, which he self-published in 1851/52 and of which a copy is currently housed in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

Literature

Bonetti 2008, ill. p. 92, p. 149 and p. 150 [cat. 40, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50]