National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Jean-Marie Harlé, Père
  • Inscription
  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

stamped in the wax positive on lower right rear, in incised circle: M.L.G [Maurice Le Garrec]; cold-stamped below initials: BRONZE; cold-stamped inside, at front right, in incised circle: 23/30

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Provenance

(Henri M. Petiet, Paris), c. June 1950; sold 2 March 1951 to Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania;[1] gift 1951 to NGA.

[1] Charles Philipon, editor of La Caricature, having commissioned and paid Daumier to execute maquettes for a gallery of busts to be printed as lithographs, owned the clay figures outright, and they remained with his family after he died in 1862. They were purchased in 1927 from Philipon's descendants by dealer-publisher Maurice Le Garrec, who commissioned the Barbedienne foundry in Paris to cast the full set of thirty-six figures, twelve busts at a time. The first set was made available by subscription in 1929-1930, the second set apparently in early 1940, and the final set by around 1950. Lessing Rosenwald purchased each of his three groups of twelve shortly after they were made available. The Barbedienne foundry returned the orginal clays and plaster molds to Le Garrec's widow when it ceased operation in the early 1950s. Subsequently Madame Le Garrec commissioned three full sets of the busts from another foundry, Valsuani, and the clays and molds were destroyed when this edition was completed in March 1965. (See the complete discussion of the busts by Suzanne Glover Lindsay in the NGA systematic catalogue, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 2000: 119-125.)

Exhibition History

1960
Honoré Daumier, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960, no cat.
1969
Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, no. 18b, repro.
1971
Nineteenth Century French Sculpture: Monuments for the Middle Class, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 1971, no. 45.
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
1979
Honoré Daumier 1808-1879, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 12, repro.
1999
Daumier: 1808-1879, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 27b, repro., as Harlé (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1952
Gobin, Maurice. Daumier Sculpteur, 1808-1879. Geneva, 1952: no. 32.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 150, as one of The Deputies, complete set of 36 bronze busts.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 55, repro.
2000
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 159, color repro. 160.

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