Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, 1877/1901

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 58.3 x 67.5 x 34.9 cm (22 15/16 x 26 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.110

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (artist)

Antoine Coysevox (artist after) French, 1640 - 1720

Image Use

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Inscription

stamped under right arm: A. COYZEVOX F / 1686

Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 8 November 1901 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] According to Widener collection cards in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

1935: Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 15, no. 332.

1960: Callataÿ, Edouard. "Une Aquarelle retrouvée d’Hubert Robert: ‘L’entrée du temple de Jupiter Sérapis à Pouzzoles.’ Un buste en bronze du Grand Condé par Coyzevox." Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français (1960): 196-199.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 149.

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

1971: Catalogue of the Collection. The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center. Paintings and Selected Sculpture. Chapel Hill, NC, 1971: 97, cat. 61.

1977: Souchal, François. French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. 3 vols. Translated by Elsie and George Hill. Oxford and London, 1977-1987: 1(1977):179-180, no. 7d.

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

2005: Garnier-Pelle, Nicole. "Un buste du Grand Condé sculpté par Coysevox en 1699." Le Musée Condé 62 (December 2005): 34-35, esp. 35.

2009: Bresc-Bautier, Genviève, Guilhem Scherf, and James David Draper, eds. Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009: 342-45, esp. 342.