An Augustinian Nun

Artist Pier Leone Ghezzi (Italian, 1674-1755)

Place of OriginItaly

Dateabout 1725-1730

DimensionsH: 29 1/2 in. (74.9 cm); W: 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1971.4

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 27

Label TextThe young nun in this sensitive portrait has tentatively been identified as Maria Lucrezia, the daughter of Bartolomeo Corsini and Vittoria Altoviti. She was a nun in the Augustinian convent of San Gaggio who died in 1736. Pier Leone Ghezzi became the official painter to Pope Clement XI in 1708 and remained at the papal court throughout his career.Published References"Recent Accessions," Art Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 1974, p. 101, repr. p. 111.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 19, nos. 2 & 3, 1976, p. 68, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 62-63, pl. 28.

"La chronique des arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 89, no. 1298, Mar. 1977, repr. p. 51, no. 203.

Conisbee, Philip, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 308, fig. 6 (B&W) p. 308.

Exhibition HistoryLondon, Heim, Paintings and Sculptures of the Baroque, 1970, no. 21.