Discovered by Jennifer Montagu and later included by her in her seminal monograph on Alessandro Algardi, this Christ Resurrected remains an enigmatic work within the Bolognese sculptor’s oeuvre. Its original function and destination are unknown, though it has been linked to an Ecce Homo in marble by Algardi, recorded in the eighteenth century at Palazzo Benci in Florence. Provenance: London, Heim Gallery; New York, Arthur M. Sackler Collection.
Exhibitions: “Fingerprints of the Artist: European Terra-Cotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections”, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, October 25, 1979 – October 5, 1980; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 21 – September 6, 1981; Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Art Museum, 1981–1982; “European Terracotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections”, Chicago, Art Institute, December 9, 1987 – March 6, 1988. Bibliography: “Fingerprints of the Artist: European Terra-Cotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections”, exhibition catalogue [Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, October 25, 1979 – October 5, 1980; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 21 – September 6, 1981; Cambridge (Mass.), Fogg Art Museum, 1981–1982], edited by Lois Katz, catalogue and essays by Charles Avery, Alastair Laing, Washington DC 1981, pp. 66–67, cat. 17; ed. New York 1981 (edited by James D. Draper), p. 15, cat. 10; J. Montagu, “Alessandro Algardi”, 2 vols., New Haven-London 1985, II, p. 343, cat. 33, fig. 217; “European Terracotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections”, exhibition catalogue (Chicago, Art Institute, December 9, 1987 – March 6, 1988), edited by Ian Wardropper, Chicago 1987, pp. n. n., cat. 5.
