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While executing a commission from Empress Josephine of France for a full-length statue of Paris (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg), Canova carved this bust for his friend Antoine Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy, a French Neoclassical theorist and critic who greatly in\ufb02uenced the sculptor\u2019s artistic ideals. It depicts the moment in Greek mythology when the shepherd Paris, called upon by Zeus to judge who was the most beautiful among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, turns to gaze at the three goddesses. Canova exploited the subject to create an ideal head, balancing the geometry of pure forms with the sensuousness of Paris\u2019s expression. Upon receipt of the gift, Quatrem\u00e8re stated: \u201cThere is in [the bust] a mixture of the heroic and the voluptuous, the noble and the amorous. I do not believe that in any other work you have ever combined such life, softness, and chaste purity.\u201d Documents indicate that Canova made four full-length marble statues and at least seven busts of Paris, a clear indication of the sculpture\u2019s popularity.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"69.9 \u00d7 30.8 \u00d7 28 cm (27 1\/2 \u00d7 12 1\/8 \u00d7 11 in.); With socle: 134.7 \u00d7 58.5 cm (53 \u00d7 23 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":28,"width":30,"height":69,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":null,"width":58,"height":134,"diameter":null,"clarification":"With socle"}],"medium_display":"Marble","inscriptions":"Inscribed: Ant(o)nio Quatremere\/Amico Optimo\/Antonius Canova\/Dono Dedit\/F. Romae\/An. MDCCCIX","credit_line":"Harold Stuart Endowment; purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Harold T. Martin","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"J. S. Memes, Memoirs of Antonio Canova, with a Critical Analysis of his Works, and an Historical Overview of Modern Sculpture (Edinburgh, 1825), pp. 508, 576.\n\nAntoine Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy, Canova et ses ouvrages ou m\u00e9moires historiques sur la vie et les traveaux de ce c\u00e9l\u00e8bre artiste (Paris, 1834), p. 175, no. 1.\n\n\"Succession de Mme. C.,\" Gazette de l\u2019h\u00f4tel Drouot 17, 347\u201348 (December 10\u201311, 1908).\n\nRen\u00e9 Schneider, Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy et son intervention dans les arts: 1788-1830 (Paris, 1910), p. 381.\n\nElena Bassi, La Gipsoteca di Possagno: Sculture E Dipinti di Antonio Canova (Venice, 1957), pp. 180\u201381.\n\nG\u00e9rard Hubert, La Sculpture dan l'Italie Napol\u00e9onienne (Paris, 1964), pp. 135-36 n. 6, fig. 43.\n\nMario Praz, L\u2019Opera completa del Canova (Milan, 1976), p. 118, nos. 207, 208.\n\nIan Wardropper and Thomas Rowlands, \"Antonio Canova and Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy: The Gift of Friendship,\" Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 1 (1989), pp. 38\u201346.\n\nVenice, Correr Museum, Canova (1992), p. 320, no.144 (ill.).\n\nHugh Honour, Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Canova 1 (Rome, 1994), pp. 405, 414.\n\nIan Wardropper, \"Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,\" Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), pp. 9\u201310, no. 13.\n\nBassano del Grappa, Museo Civico, Canova (2003), pp. 398-99, fig. IV24.\n\nC. D. Dickerson III and Emerson Bowyer, Canova: Sketching in Clay, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: National Gallery, 2023), 46 (detail ill.), 47, pl. 34, 268.","exhibition_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Canova and France, Jan. 15\u2013Feb. 20, 1985 [no cat].\n\nWashington, DC, Canova: Sketching in Clay, June 11\u2013Oct. 9, 2023, pl. 34; Art Institue of Chicago, Nov. 19, 2023-Mar. 18, 2024 [Chicago only].","provenance_text":"Antoine Chrysosome Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy (died 1849), Paris, by 1810 [gift from the artist, according to Quatrem\u00e8re de Quincy, 1834]; sold, his estate sale, 14 rue de Cond\u00e9, Paris, April 22, 1850, lot 2.  Sold, H\u00f4tel des Ventes Mobili\u00e9res, Paris, March 15, 1851, lot 48.  Madame Chesnet, before 1908; sold, her estate sale, H\u00f4tel Drouot, Paris, December 7\u20138, 1908, lot 82, to M. (Emilio?) Mihura for 800 francs [see Gazette de l\u2019H\u00f4tel Drouot, December 10\u201311, 1908].  Pradere family, Buenos Aires, before 1955 [according to letter from Francisco Murature to Hugh Honour, February 10, 1983, in curatorial file].  Casa Pardo, Buenos Aires, by late 1950s [according to source cited above]; sold to Francisco Murature, Buenos Aires, by late 1950s [according to source cited above].  Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York, by early 1980s; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1985,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":0,"color":{"h":39,"l":48,"s":1,"percentage":0.0025454255583160315,"population":1534},"latitude":41.8799060155448,"longitude":-87.6238602027296,"latlon":"41.879906015545,-87.62386020273","is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 218","gallery_id":2147483614,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Sculpture","artwork_type_id":3,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":33858,"artist_title":"Antonio Canova","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[33858],"artist_titles":["Antonio Canova"],"category_ids":["PC-10","PC-831"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe","Essentials"],"term_titles":["bust\/head","Neoclassicism","sculpting","marble","mythology","mythical","Greek mythology","busts","nineteenth century","19th century","carving","Italian","metamorphic rock","rock","inorganic material","sculpture","hats","men","mythological figures"],"style_id":"TM-5983","style_title":"Neoclassicism","alt_style_ids":["TM-15636","TM-13203"],"style_ids":["TM-5983","TM-15636","TM-13203"],"style_titles":["Neoclassicism","nineteenth century","19th century"],"classification_id":"TM-347","classification_title":"bust\/head","alt_classification_ids":["TM-14164","TM-13"],"classification_ids":["TM-347","TM-14164","TM-13"],"classification_titles":["bust\/head","Italian","sculpture"],"subject_id":"TM-8766","alt_subject_ids":["TM-15159","TM-12707","TM-12530","TM-12109","TM-10121","TM-12704"],"subject_ids":["TM-8766","TM-15159","TM-12707","TM-12530","TM-12109","TM-10121","TM-12704"],"subject_titles":["mythology","mythical","Greek mythology","busts","hats","men","mythological figures"],"material_id":"TM-2435","alt_material_ids":["TM-2798","TM-2796","TM-2600"],"material_ids":["TM-2435","TM-2798","TM-2796","TM-2600"],"material_titles":["marble","metamorphic rock","rock","inorganic material"],"technique_id":"TM-12999","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3863"],"technique_ids":["TM-12999","TM-3863"],"technique_titles":["sculpting","carving"],"theme_titles":["Essentials"],"image_id":"3e41420d-2bae-5863-1980-fd39a78e1ffe","alt_image_ids":["05087b44-12cf-205b-b7cc-575354a8b334","4430e5ca-382f-7995-7838-765913f064a8"],"document_ids":["37f1444f-6c1f-dde3-98fe-dece769ff35d"],"sound_ids":["37f1444f-6c1f-dde3-98fe-dece769ff35d"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_boosted":"Bust of Paris","suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1984.530"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Bust of Paris"],"weight":6711,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-06-10T09:59:06-05:00","updated_at":"2026-09-21T09:22:42-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-24T15:24:33-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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