Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin

c. 1698/1699

Antoine Coysevox

Artist, French, 1640 - 1720

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 79 x 75.1 x 34 cm (31 1/8 x 29 9/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
    accessory size (h. w/base): 92.5 cm (36 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.5.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Bourbon-Condé family. Sir Richard Wallace, 1st bt. [1818-1890], London and Paris; by inheritance to his wife, Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace [1819-1897], London and Paris; by inheritance to her adviser and secretary, Sir John Murray Scott, 1st bt. [1847-1912], London and Paris; by inheritance to his friend, Josephine Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville [1864-1936], Sevenoaks, Kent [sculpture remained in Paris in Scott's residence];[1] sold 1913 to (Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., Paris and New York); sold 1951 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.
[1] On the Wallace-Bagatelle collection and its inheritance by Sir John Murray Scott and subsequently Lady Sackville, see Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting, New York, 1961: 97-101. Princess Faucigny-Lucinge is mentioned in a letter dated 8 December 1949, from Francois-Gerard Seligmann to John Walker, as having been a previous owner of the piece; however, no other evidence has been found to support this (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1950

  • Cecil, Robert. “The remainder of the Hertford and Wallace Collections.” The Burlington Magazine 92 (June 1950): 168-172, fig. 19, 23.

1952

  • Seymour, Charles, Jr. "A Group of Royal Portrait-Busts from the Reign of Louis XIV." The Art Bulletin 34, no. 4 (December 1952): fig. 1, fig. 3.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 444, repro.

1961

  • Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 175, pl. 179.

  • Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: 101, pl. 16, 17.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 150..

  • Coolidge, John. "Two Portrait Busts attributed to Guillaume Coustou the Elder." In Essays in Honor of Walter Friedlaender. Locust Valley, NY, 1965: 8.

  • Cecil, R.A. "French Eighteenth Century Sculpture formerly in the Hertford-Wallace Collection." Apollo 81 (June 1965): 450, repro.

1968

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

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 95.

1990

  • Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton. "Five Portrait Busts: A Question of Identification and Scholarship." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990): 92-95, repro.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 49, 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.

Wikidata ID

Q63854530

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