Feminine Statue

Egyptian, Ptolemaic period, probably 3rd century BC
Greywacke
H.: 86 cm. - W.: 26 cm. - D.: 27.5 cm.
18th century restorations.

Provenance:

Hadrian’s villa, Tivoli, near Rome.
Then private collection of Filippo Vincenzo Farsetti (1703-1774), Palazzo di San Luca, Venice, purchased in Rome between 1766 and 1769.
Passed down in the collection of his cousin Daniele Filippo Farsetti (1725-1787), Palazzo di San Luca, Venice.
Given to Angelo Querini (1721-1795), in exchange for another work, gardens of Villa Alticchiero, near Padua, between 1778 et 1787.
Passed down in the collection of Lauro Querini († 1806), his nephew.
Mentioned in the letters sent by Sir John Stepney (1743-1811) to Charles Townley (1737-1805) in 1804.
Probably in the collection of homas Hope (1769-1831), Duchess Street, London, in 1824.
Piers Oakey’s private collection, Harrington House, 4 Clarendon Crescent, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, until 2000.
Christie’s London, « The Contents of Harrington House, Leamington Spa », 4 May 2000, lot 460.
Then in the Tomasso Brothers’ English private collection.
Christie’s New York, « Antiquities », 7 December 2011, lot 207.

Publications:

 
- J. G. W. Orsini-Rosenberg, Alticchiero, 1787, Padoue, p. 46.
- L. Lanzi, Viaggio del 1793 per lo stato Veneto e Venezia stessa (“1793 travels through Veneto and Venice itself”), 1793, Florence.
- C. A. Marini, Della verità dei fatti di cui si è conservata memoria nell’iscrizione a S. Giovanni di Salvore presso a Pirano. Dissertazione apologetica con annotazioni (“On the truth of the facts recorded in the inscription to S. Giovanni di Salvore in Pirano”), 1794, Venise.
- C. Molloy Westmacott, British galleries of Painting and Sculpture, 1824, Londres, p. 216.
- C. Dolzani, “Cimeli egiziani del Museo Civico di Padova I” (“Egyptian antiquities at Museo Civico di Padova I”), Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova, LVII, 1968, p. 9.
- A. Roullet, The Egyptian and Egyptianizing monuments of imperial Rome, 1972, Leyde, Brill.
- C. Dolzani, “Presenze di origine egiziana nell’ambiente aquileiese e nell’alto adriatico” (“Egyptian vestiges in the vicinity of Aquileia and the northern Adriatic”) in Aquileia e l’Oriente Mediterraneo [...], 24 aprile - 1 maggio 1976, 1977, Udine, p. 131.
- E. D’Amicone, “Itinerario nelle collezioni egizie del Veneto” (“Itinerary through the Egyptian collections in Veneto”) in S. Curto and A. Roccati, Tesori dei Faraoni, 1984, Milan, p. 84.
- E. D’Amicone, “Antico Egitto e Collezionismo veneto e veneziano” (“Ancient Egypt and Venetan and Venetian collecting”) in Venezia e l’archeologia, 1990, Rome, p. 24. - E. Varin, “Notes sur la dispersion de quelques objets égyptiens provenant de la villa Quirini à Alticchiéro” (“Notes on the dispersion of some Egyptian objects from Quirini Villa in Alticchiero”) in Revue d’égyptologie, 2002, 53, pp. 220–221, Pl. XXVIII.
- J.-M. Humbert, Michael Pantazzi and Christiane Ziegler (ed.), Égyptomania : l’Égypte dans l’art occidental (“Egyptomania: Egypt in western art”), 1994, Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
- S.-A. Ashton, Roman Egyptomania (cat. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, September 2004 – May 2005), 2004, Golden House, pp. 180-182.
- L. Vedovato, Villa Farsetti nella Storia (“Villa Farsetti through history”), II, Venise, 2004, pp. 24, 65, 142 n. 153.
- Con gli occhi di Canova: la Collezione Farsetti del Museo Ermitage (“With the eyes of Canova: the Hermitage Museum’s Farsetti Collection” - Cat. Massa, Doge’s Palace, 30 April –21 August 2005), 2005, Pontedera, pp. 31, 42.
- D. Picchi, Alle origini dell’Egittologia : le antichità egiziane di Bologna e di Venezia da un inedito di Georg Zoëga (“Retracing the origins of Egyptology: the Egyptian antiquities of Bologna and Venice from unpublished works by Georg Zoëga”), 2010, Editrice la Mandragora, p. 103.

Published in our catalogue SUBLIME, 2023.