The white statuette depicts St. Charles Borromeo kneeling on a cushion with his head slightly tilted to one side, his left hand on his chest and the right hand raised.

This figure was already shown at the 1996 Rome exhibition; another exemplar is also known, which today forms part of the Cagnola collection in Gazzada (inv. C 603). It appears in the Inventory of Models under number 31: S. Carlo Borromeo in ginocchioni, di gesso con forma.

Del Foggini [St. Charles Borromeo kneeling, in plaster with mold. By Foggini]. In the Rome catalogue (1996), d'Agliano mentions that the prototype was a gilt bronze by Giovan Battista Foggini, today in a private collection in New York.

The model is among those supplied by Vincenzo Foggini between 1741 and 1753, and the attribution of the porcelain version to Bruschi can be considered definitive, as he was always involved in the creation of sculptures requiring the greatest skill in execution. (L.M.)