Chloris Caressed by Zephyr
model 1847, cast 1847/1904
Artist, French, 1790 - 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
plaster
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 29.5 x 8.3 x 7.8 cm (11 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1981.55.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased reportedly in Paris in the late 1920s by Esther Leavens Jenkins Willcox [1898-1981], New York; by inheritance to her daughter, Esther Willcox Putnam, McLean, Virginia;[1] gift 1981 to NGA.
[1] Letter, from Esther W. Putnam to Douglas Lewis dated 16 October 1981 (in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 176, 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: 299-302, color repro.
Inscriptions
apparently stamped into the model from which plaster was cast, on bottom rim, at left, of self-base: J. PRADIER
Wikidata ID
Q63860901