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Cardinal Richelieu
(c. 1642)
Medium
bronze
Measurements
87.7 × 73.9 × 33.0 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1969
Gallery location
17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
In the 1640s Bernini was the most celebrated sculptor working in Rome and Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), chief minister to Louis XIII, was the most powerful French statesman of his day. Bernini’s bust was sculpted without the artist having met his sitter. It is believed that Bernini worked from a triple-angled portrait of the cardinal (National Gallery, London), which was painted in Paris by Philippe de Champaigne and then sent to Rome as Bernini’s ‘model’.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
E1-1970
Department
International Sculpture
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