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Provenance

Abbé Joseph-Marie Terray [1715-1778], Paris; his nephew and heir Abbé Cecroy de Terray; (sale 20 January 1779, no. 27, withdrawn). Marquis Joseph Henri Costa de Beauregard, Chateau de Beauregard, Savoy; Marquis Charles Albert Costa de Beauregard, La Motte-Servolex, Savoy. Charles J. Wertheimer [d. 1911], London. David David-Weill [1871-1952], Neuilly-sur-Seine, by 1925;[1] sold 1937 to (Wildenstein & Co.), until at least 1940.[2] purchased 1949 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] Gabriel Henriot, "La Collection David-Weill," L'Amour de l'Art, 1925: 14.

[2] "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News 35, 27 February 1937. Exhibited with the David-Weill collection for sale at Wildenstein, New York, in 1940.

Exhibition History

1940
French XVIIIth Century Sculpture formerly of the David-Weill Collection, Wildenstein & Co., New York, April 1940, no. 39
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1877
Guiffrey, Jules. Les Caffieri. Paris, 1877: 221.
1885
Thirion, Henri. Les Adam et Clodion. Paris, 1885: 275, 391, 393.
1910
Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole française au dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1910-1911: II: 147.
1921
Réau, Louis. "Une statue de Pigalle retrouvée: la Moisonneuse ou l’Abondance.” Revue de l'Art ancien et modern 39 (January 1921): 50-62, esp. 62.
1925
Henriot, Gabriel. "La Collection David-Weill." L'Amour de l'Art (1925):14
1934
Réau, Louis. "Un sculpteur flamand francisé du XXVVVisiècle: Tassaert (1727-1788)." Revue belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art 4 (1934): 289-309, esp. 298.
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: 260, no. 117, repro.
1959
Hodgkinson, Terence. "French Sculpture at Waddesdon." The Burlington Magazine 101, n. 676/677 (July-August 1959): 255-259, esp. 256.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 452, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 149
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 131, repro.
1970
Hodgkinson, Terence. Sculpture (The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor). London and Fribourg, 1970: 18-19.
1973
Scott, Barbara. "Charles Alexandre Calonne, Economist and Collector." Apollo (January 1973): 87, repro. fig. 2.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 105.
1981
Katz, Lois, ed.. Finger Prints of the Artist: European Terra-Cotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1981: repro. fig. 24.
1986
Ford, Terrence, complier and ed. Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 1. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York 1986: no. 163.
1993
Bailey, Colin. "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: 202-203, fig. 6, 219 n. 35.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 46, repro.
2000
National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000:61.
2004
Gopnik, Blake. "A Very Full Week at the National Gallery, Five Full Days of Permanent Pleasure." The Washington Post (27 December 2004): C1, C2, repro.
2005
The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 66, fig. 93, 75 (not in the exhibition).

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