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Inscription

stamped in the wax positive on lower right shoulder, in incised circle: M.L.G. [Maurcie Le Garrec]; cold-stamped below: BRONZE; inside, in incised circle: 23/25

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

1960
Honoré Daumier, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960, no cat., as Soult.
1969
Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, no. 36c, repro., as Unknown ("Soult").
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist, as Bust of an Unknown Man ("Soult?").
1999
Daumier: 1808-1879, Nat. Gal. of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Phillips Coll., Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 43b, repro., as Berryer or Huguet de Sémonville?, usually identified as Soult (shown only in Washington)

Bibliography

1952
Gobin, Maurice. Daumier Sculpteur, 1808-1879. Geneva, 1952: no. 30.
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: 59, 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: 133-135, color repro.

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