Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010799Overdoor Decoration
About the Artwork
This wood carving by Grinling Gibbons, England’s most famous master of this medium, comes from the decoration above a door of the Inner Library at Cassiobury Park, near London, one of the artist’s earliest commissions. Decorative elements from this house were sold after it was pulled down in 1922, but many rooms were photographed before their destruction, and the original location of surviving carvings can thus be identified.
Provenance
before 1943: Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY 1943: (Parke-Bernet, November 18-19, 1943, lot. 399)., sold to P.W. French & Co.) 1943: (P.W. French & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1943-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648–1721)
- Date
- c. 1675–1677
- Medium
- limewood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 68.6 x 86.4 cm (27 x 34 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
- Accession no.
- 1943.663
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