Head of Medusa

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2001, lot 117, to Daniel Katz, Limited, London [according to Danny Katz]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002.

Exhibition history

Washington, DC, Canova: Sketching in Clay, June 11–Oct. 9, 2023, not in cat.; Art Institue of Chicago, Nov. 19, 2023-Mar. 18, 2024 [Chicago only].

Publications

Bruce Boucher, “Head of Medusa,” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003): 62-63 (ill.).

Artist: Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822)
Date: c. 1801
Medium: Plaster
Dimensions: 31 × 31.8 × 30.5 cm (12 1/4 × 12 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.); With socle: 116.3 × 53.4 × 49.6 cm (45 3/4 × 21 × 19 1/2 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: sculpture
Style: Neoclassicism
Place: Italy
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Lacy Armour Endowment
Accession no.: 2002.606

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.