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Description: | u s. b. r. "John Graham" CRE GRAHAM-GILBERT, John; (Scottish; 1794-1866) The son of David Graham, a Glasgow merchant, John Graham-Gilbert was a student at the Royal Academy Schools, in London 1818-1821, where he obtained both silver and gold medals before making a journey to Italy to further his studies in art. This drawing of one of the most famous of all ancient statues, was drawn from the Vatican statue itself, rather than from a plaster cast although the Royal Academy did possess one in the eighteenth century. When Graham-Gilbert visited Rome the statue had only recently returned from its period in captivity in France during the Napoleonic period when many works of art were taken from all over Europe, and this drawing is a celebration of that triumphant return to its proper home, after which there was a renewed interest in making casts of it for art schools around Europe. The statue is first recorded as being in the "garden of S. Pietro in Vincoli", that is in the collection of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. It is recorded in the Vatican by 1509, and in the Belvedere by 1511. In 1797, it was handed over to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino, and reached Paris in a triumphal procession in 1798. It was displayed in the Musee Central des Arts until 1815, when it was returned to the Belvedere courtyard by the end of February 1816. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CLASSICAL : FIGURE : MALE : NUDE : STUDY : ANTIQUITY : SCULPTURE : SCOTTISH 19TH CENTURY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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