Bacchante, 19th century

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 39

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 173.5 x 58.6 x 55.6 cm (68 5/16 x 23 1/16 x 21 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1952.5.96

Artists / Makers

French 19th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Provenance

Choiseul-Praslin family, Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris). (Wildenstein and Co., New York); sold June 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] The Kann and Choiseul-Praslin names are given on the Wildenstein invoice, dated 23 June 1949 (copy in NGA curatorial files). The invoice, for a total of 16 items, lists the sculpture as one of a pair by "Claude Michel (Clodion)."

Associated Names

Choiseul-Praslin
Kann, Maurice
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Bibliography

1951: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 270, no. 122, repro., as by Clodion.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 455, repro., as by Clodion.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 149, as by Clodion.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 132, repro., as by Clodion.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 114.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 94, repro.

1999: Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.