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Attributed to Giuseppe Mazzuoli
A Nereid
K1643
76
Italian
c. 1705/1715
Carrara marble
Sculpture
204.2 x 91.6 x 60.3 cm (80 3/8 x 36 1/16 x 23 3/4 in)
La Favorita, Resina and/or Palazzo Reale, Portici (Naples). Private collection, France. [1] (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold June 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, London, 1976: 83. [2] The Wildenstein invoice to the Kress Foundation for 16 items, including the sculpture, listed as "Thetis" by Jean Lorenzo Bernini, is dated 23 June 1949 (copy in NGA curatorial files).
1952.5.92
1643
A-1616
