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Sketch of two statues: Ballerinas by Canova Wall Art
ART BY: John Gibson
Sketch of two statues: Ballerinas by Canova Wall Art
ART BY: John Gibson
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Sketch of two statues: Ballerinas by Canova is a graphite, with inscriptions in pen and brown ink by John Gibson (1790–1866), dated 1855. The artist is catalogued as Welsh. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3200 × 3525 px (1.4 MB). It is filed under Drawings, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 14 works by John Gibson, a Welsh artist.
John Gibson was a Welsh neoclassical sculptor who studied in Rome under Canova. He excelled chiefly in bas-relief, notably the two life-size works The Hours Leading the Horses of the Sun and Phaethon Driving the Chariot of the Sun, but was also proficient in monumental and portrait statuary.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by John Gibson →
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