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Poetry and Music
Claude Michelc. 1774/1778
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Poetry and Music
- Creator: Clodion
- Date Created: c. 1774/1778
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 117.6 x 89.1 x 56 cm (46 5/16 x 35 1/16 x 22 1/16 in.) gross weight: 390.093 kg (860 lb.)
- Provenance: Commissioned by Abbé Joseph-Marie Terray [1715-1778], Paris; by inheritance to his nephew and heir, Antoine-Jean Terray, vicomte de Roziéres [1750-1794], Hôtel d'Aumont, Paris, and Château de La Motte-Tilly, near Nogent-sur-Seine; (estate sale of the elder Terray, at the Hôtel d'Aumont by F.C. Joullain & Sons, 20 January 1779, no. 27, withdrawn).[1] Marquis Joseph-Henri Costa de Beauregard [1752-1824], Château de Beauregard, Savoy. his great-grandson, Marquis Charles-Albert Costa de Beauregard [1835-1909], La Motte-Servolex, Savoy. (Charles J. Wertheimer [1842-1911], London).[2] David David-Weill [1871-1952], Neuilly-sur-Seine, by 1921;[3] consigned to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1949 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] The early provenance was first discussed in detail by Ulrich Middeldorf, _Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century_, London, 1976: 105-106, no. 1674, entry by Charles Avery. Later, in several publications based on archival documentation, Colin B. Bailey provided more complete details: "Mécénat privé? Mécénat public? L'abbé Terray, collectionneur de sculptures contemporaines," In _Clodion et la sculpture française de la fin du XVIIIe siècle_, Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le service culturel les 20 et 21 mars 1992, Paris, 1993: 189-222; "The abbé Terray: An Enlightened Patron of Modern Sculpture." _The Burlington Magazine_ 135, no. 1079 (February 1993): 121-132, esp. 125, 126 fig. 75. Abbé Terray was controller general of finances under the French king Louis XV from 1769 to 1774; his nephew and heir was Intendant of Montauban and Lyon, and a victim of the French Revolution. [2] For these three names, Charles Avery's entry (see note 1) references a "written communication from Duveen's and M. Minet, secretary to Madame D. David-Weill, Neuilly-Sur-Seine." [3] See note 2, and Louis Réau, "Une statue de Pigalle retrouvée: la Moisonneuse ou l’Abondance.” _Revue de l'Art ancien et modern_ 39 (January 1921): 62. [4] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series II.A, Files regarding works of art: reel 86, box 231, folder 14, Clodion, Poetry and Music, Vestal or Goddess of Fire, marble groups; Series II.I, Collectors’ files, reel 297, box 442, folder 2, Pierre David-Weill; copies in NGA curatorial files.The Duveen bill of sale to the Kress Foundation is dated 28 June 1949; copy in NGA curatorial files.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: marble
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