Juno/Proserpina, c. 1700

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

height: 8 7/16 in. (21.38 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Guy Ladrière

Accession Number

1999.2.1

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (sculptor)

Michel Anguier (related artist) French, 1612 - 1686

Image Use

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Inscription

in red on base, an old inventory number: 93

Provenance

Private collection, America, c. 1965; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 1985, no. 205). (Galerie Ratton-Ladrière, Paris), by 1990.[1] (Nemesis Fine Arts, Ltd., Geneva); gift 1999 to NGA.

[1] Letter, 18 December 1990, Galerie Ratton-Ladrière to Douglas Lewis, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Nemesis Fine Arts Ltd.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Sotheby's

Bibliography

1999: Dabbs, Julia Kathleen. Embodying Ethos: Anguier, Poussin, and the Concept of Corporal Expression in the French Academy. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1999: 30-31, 42-43, 47, fig. 19.

2009: Moureyre, Françoise de la. "La Junon en pierre de Michel Anguier retrouvée. Nouvelles considérations sur les 'dieux et déesses'." La Tribune de l'Art (16 June 2009, accessed online; https://www.latribunedelart.com/la-junon-en-pierre-de-michel-anguier-retrouvee-nouvelles-considerations-sur-les-dieux-et-deesses): ill. 7.