Monumental Urn

c. 1860

Clodion

Sculptor, French, 1738 - 1814

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West Building Main Floor, East Sculpture Hall

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, prince of San Donato [1812-1870], near Florence;[1] Paul Pavlovich Demidov, prince of San Donato [1839-1885], near Florence; (Demidov sale, at their residence, San Donato, 1880, no. 106/107.[2] Mme Isaac Pereire, Paris; (her sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 4 June 1937, no. 89/90);[3] (Goldschmidt, London). (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), by August 1937;[4] by exchange to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1940 to NGA.
[1] According to notes in NGA curatorial files, this urn and NGA 1940.2.2 are recorded in the San Donato catalogue as having been executed for Versailles, although there is no proof to substantiate this.
[2] The urn is either lot 106 or 107.
[3] The sale catalogue identified the seller as "Mme I.P." The urn is either lot 89 or 90.
[4] Provenance prior to the Mellon Trust is according to David Finley's notebook, donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, and now in Gallery Archives.

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Exhibition History

-1

  • Sculpture Gallery, Tate Gallery, London, 1937, 3, repro.

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 220, no. A-44.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 219.

1949

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 173, repro.

  • Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 183, note 51, repro. 158-159.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 148.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 131, repro.

1973

  • Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 62.

1991

  • Scherf, Guilhem. "Autour de Clodion: variations, répétitions, imitations." Revue de l'Art 91 (1991): 47-59, repro. 8.

1992

  • Poulet, Anne L., and Guilhem Scherf. Clodion: 1738-1814. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992: 214.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 46, repro.

2008

  • Miner, Carolyn. "Pair of ornamental urns." In Bennett, Shelley, and Carolyn Sargentson, eds. French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington. New Haven, 2008: 466-467.

Wikidata ID

Q63810176

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