Antonio Canova – Perseus with the Head of Medusa – Italian, Rome – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/204758
Comissioned by Count Jan and Countess Valeria Tarnowski (1804/6–49) ; by descent, the heirs of Count Jan and Countess Valeria Tarnowski (1849–before 1871; sold to Wawra) ; [ C.J. Wawra , Vienna (until 1871) ] ; Freiherr Carl von Schwarz , Vienna (after 1871) ; descended in the family of Freiherr Carl von Schwarz , Vienna (until 1967; sold through Piero Tozzi, New York to MMA)
A letter from a Viennese banker named Franck to Canova in early summer 1806 indicates
