National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Monumental Urn
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Overview

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Inscription

on relief medallion, on base of statue of Pan: CLODION / 1782.

Marks and Labels

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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, March 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 1940.2.3 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.

Exhibition History

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 220.
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): 172, repro.
1959
Wark, R. R. Sculpture in the Huntington Collection. San Marino, California, 1959: 74.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 148
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 131, repro.
1972
Hovey, Walter Read. "The Arts in Changing Societies: Reflections Inspired by Works of Art in the Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh." Five Lectures, delivered at the Frick Art Museum, 1970-1971 (1972): fig. 26.
1991
Scherf, Guilhem. "Autour de Clodion: variations, répétitions, imitations." Revue de l'Art 91 (1991): 47-59, repro. 8-9.
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: 45, 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.

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