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Materials:

ivory

Size Notes:

the ivory group

Description:

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Literature:

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: P. Malgouyres, Ivoires du musée du Louvre 1480-1850. Une collection inédite, Paris, 2005, pp. 78-81, no. 19. E. Schmidt, Beauty Bound and Power Unleashed: Jacobus Agnesius and the Quest for Expression in Baroque Ivory Sculpture, New York, 2011. E. Schmidt and M. Sframeli (eds.), Diafane passioni. Avori barocchi dalle corti europee, Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence, 2013, pp. 190-201, nos. 52, 55, 56. P. Malgouyres, 'Baroque Ivory', exhibition review in Burlington Magazine, Nov. 2013, pp. 795-6. M. Trusted, Victoria and Albert Museum: Baroque and Later Ivories, London, 2013.

Provenance:

Probably given to Francisco Bravo de Saravia y Ovalle by his uncle Alonso de Ovalle (1603-1651). Francisco Bravo de Saravia y Ovalle, at Almenor de Soria, Spain, by 20 May 1654. Transported to Santiago by Francisco Bravo de Saravia y Ovalle, Marqués de la Pica between 1654 and 1686. Lent to his grand-daughter Doña Marcela de Meneses for her room in the Convent de las Agustinas in 1686. Bequeathed to Doña Marcela de Meneses on 2 May 1703 but returned to D. Miguel-José de Andia-Irarrázaval y Bravia de Saravia at her death in 1748. By descent within the family as the property of the eldest son; included in documents in 1848 and a will of 19 November 1895. Photographed in the Santiago palace of D. Fernando-Julio Irarrázaval- Mackenna in the early 20th century; and by descent to the present day.