Bust of a Little Girl, model 1744, cast probably 1750/1753

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G12

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 37 x 25.2 x 19.7 cm (14 9/16 x 9 15/16 x 7 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.128

Artists / Makers

Jacques-François-Joseph Saly (artist) French, 1717 - 1776

Image Use

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Provenance

Possibly Marquis de Ménars.[1] Baron Roger de Sivry, Paris; by inheritence to his wife, Madame la Baronne Roger de Sivry, Paris; (her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22-23 March 1904, 2nd day, no. 164); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 21 December 1904 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] See notes by Peter Marlowe, March 1968, in NGA curatorial files.

[2] Provenance from Widener card file and catalogue notes, and transcription of Duveen's pamphlet on the sculpture, in NGA curatorial files. However, the 1904 sale catalogue for the Roger de Sivry collection gives the height of the bust as 52 centimeters, and the NGA bust is only 37 centimeters (with the base, 48 centimeters). See the notes of Edith Standen, Widener collection curator, about problems with the provenance, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Ménars, Marquis de
Sivry, Roger de, Baron
Sivry, Roger de, Mme. la Baronne
Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

1973: François Boucher in North American Collections: One Hundred Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-1974, unnumbered brochure titled François Boucher: Influence and Versatility (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as Bust of a Girl.

1948: Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 136, repro., as Alexandrine d'Etiolles.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 170.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 150, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 213, repro.