SculptureItalian17th century
Study for the Personification of Silence
c. 1664
Artists
Melchiorre CafàArtist
Ercole FerrataAlternative attribution
Gian Lorenzo BerniniPrevious attribution
Dimensions
16.6 cm (6 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was the curator of the Galleria Borghese. Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to Fog Art Museum, 1937.
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