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The Sleeping Shepherd Boy
Artist: John Gibson (1790 - 1866)
Location: Walker Art Gallery
Date: 1818 - 1819
Materials: marble
Dimensions: 112 x 104 x 55 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £7,500 (Total: £48,000)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 3446 (1989)
Provenance:
Lord Prudhoe, Stanwick Park, Yorkshire; Dukes of Northumberland, Syon Park, Middlesex; Christie's 29/9/88, lot 307.
Description:
The first life-size figure modelled by Gibson in Rome as a pupil of Canova; in the neoclassical tradition. This example was the second commission in marble, done for Algernon Percy, Lord Prudhoe (later 4th Duke of Northumberland) before 1841. Statue on a rectangular marble pedestal, with an inscription in bronze letters on the front 'REPOSE', 1818-1819.
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