Giovanni BastianiniItalian, 1830–1868Bust
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the sculpture
This is a terracotta bust of a lady made by Giovanni Bastianini in Florence in about 1860. This bust was thought to be a copy of a polychrome wooden bust now in the Louvre ascribed to Desiderio da Settignano. However, the bust in the Louvre is itself probably a forgery by Bastianini and the present bust may well have been the model for it.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- A.9-1916
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
