Pedestal for "Venus" after Canova
Thomas Hope
c. 1822/1823
Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall: 94.62 × 202.25 × 151.45 cm (37 1/4 × 79 5/8 × 59 5/8 in.) gross weight (approximate): 453.597 kg (1000 lb.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2014.136.243
About the Artist
Thomas Hope
Thomas Hope (1769–1831) was born in Amsterdam into the illustrious Hope family of Scottish-Dutch merchant bankers, Hope & Co., as the eldest son of Jan Hope and Philippina Barbara van der Hoeven.) Following his father's death in 1784, the family amassed vast wealth from banking and art collecting, with Hope inheriting a passion for antiquities nurtured amid his parents' opulent estates like Groene...