The Sleeping Shepherd Boy
John Gibson
- Art Funded
- 1989
- Dimensions
- 112 x 104 x 55 cm
- Vendor
- Christie's
The first life-size figure modelled by Gibson in Rome as a pupil of Canova; in the neoclassical tradition.
This example was the second commission in marble, done for Algernon Percy, Lord Prudhoe (later 4th Duke of Northumberland) before 1841. Statue on a rectangular marble pedestal, with an inscription in bronze letters on the front 'REPOSE', 1818-1819.
Provenance
Lord Prudhoe, Stanwick Park, Yorkshire; Dukes of Northumberland, Syon Park, Middlesex; Christie's 29/9/88, lot 307.