Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.14
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
religious and mythological subject | portrait | buttons (fasteners) | pope | Roman Catholic
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Grand Tour (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1998-01-10 - 1998-04-10)
Publications:
Angus Trumble, The Marble Bust, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2004, no. 5, V 1304 (YCBA)Ellis Waterhouse, Sculpture from the Paul Mellon Collection at the British Art Center at Yale, Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, May 1977, p. 351, N1 +B87 Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Christopher Hewetson was born in Ireland but settled in Rome in 1765, where he created a thriving business making portrait busts. This popular example, of which at least five versions were made, helped establish Hewetson’s reputation. British tourists in Rome were charmed by Pope Clement and his unexpected fondness for English Protestants. Despite the imposing scale of the bust, Clement appears affable and approachable. The second button of his mozzetta is undone, as if the unworldly pontiff had overlooked it with his mind on higher things. \n\n Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016