Thomas Jefferson, model 1832-1833, cast after 1892

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 9

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 38.7 x 16.7 x 12 cm (15 1/4 x 6 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund

Accession Number

1975.11.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (artist) French, 1788 - 1856

Image Use

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Inscription

in cursive on right rim of self-base: David; on front rim of self-base: JEFFERSON; incised in the model on scroll in Jefferson's left hand: Tout homme / a deux Patries / la Sienne / et / la France; foundry cachet impressed in the model on rear rim, at right, of self-base: CIRE PERDUE / LE BLANC BARBEDIENNE / A PARIS; below, probably cold-stamped: BRONZE

Marks and Labels

FM: LeBlanc-Barbedienne

Provenance

(Reportedly London art market), by 1974.[1] (Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc., New York), 1974; purchased 13 March 1975 by NGA.

[1] Douglas Lewis, letter to James Holderbaum dated 10 January 1975 (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Art market, London
Hall Fine Arts, Michael

Exhibition History

1980: The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles County Mus. of Art; Minneapolis Inst. of Arts; Detroit Inst. of Arts; Indianapolis Mus. of Art; Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980-1981, no. 99.

1986: John Frazee, 1790-1852, Sculptor, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., The Boston Atheneum, 1986, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 64, 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: 214-219, color repro.

2004: Somma, Thomas P. "Lost in America: David d'Angers's Bronze Statue of Thomas Jefferson, 1832-1833." In Kennon, Donald R. and Thomas P. Somma (eds.). American Pantheon: Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol. Athens, Ohio, 2004: 90-110, repro. fig. 9.