Angel Holding the Veil of Veronica

Artist Agostino Cornacchini Italian, 1686–1754

Datecirca 1730–1735

MediumMarble

Dimensions43 x 24 x 22 in. (109.2 x 61 x 55.9 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Garland S. Tucker

Object numberGL.57.12.1

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On view

ProvenanceFrank Gair Macomber, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, BostonPublished ReferencesW. R. V[alentiner], "Opening of Four New Galleries of Early Sculpture and Decorative Arts," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 2 (Summer 1957), mentioned 23.

Herbert Keutner, "Critical Remarks on the Work of Agostino Cornacchini." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, nos. 4 and 5 (Winter 1957-Spring 1958), 13-22, illus. (b-w) 15, fig. 2.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 210.

Dean Walker, "An Introduction to Sculpture in Rome in the Eighteenth Century," In Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, eds. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000), 251.
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