IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31226 accession number: M.6-1974 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White marble, carved in the round. Reclining, partially draped figure of Venus. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Carved for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese, and situated in one of the grottos of the Nymphaeum of the Villa Lainate, near Milan reputedly from a palazzo in Rome; acquired in England by Gallery Heim, London and exhibited in their Autumn Exhibition, 1972, London, Paintings and Sculpture 1770-1830. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Cunliffe, Perceval, and Webb Funds, aided by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, the Pilgrim Trust and a Grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31226 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- reclining reclining TECHNIQUES ---------- white marble, carved carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1829 - 1829 creation date earliest: 1829 creation date latest: 1829 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Marchesi, Pompeo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 109 dimension: Width units: cm value: 157.5 CITATIONS -------- Villa Lainate, Guide Il marmo e la parola. Precisazioni su Pompeo Marchesi La Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 840 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 410 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 840 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_m_6_1974_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels