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Provenance

Probably Amélie-Julie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace [1819-1897], Paris and London; by inheritance to her adviser and secretary, Sir John Murray Scott [1847-1912], London and Paris;[1] by inheritance to his friend, Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville [1864-1936], Paris; sold 1914 with her entire inheritance from Scott to (Jacques Seligmann & Fils, Paris and New York); purchased 1921 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Robert Wenley of The Wallace Collection, London, wrote the following in a letter faxed 6 December 2000 to Laura Coyle of the Corcoran (in NGA curatorial files): "The evidence for Wallace ownership doesn't go back further than Murray Scott, but since no-one has ever suggested that he added to his inheritance, the strong probability is that he acquired the bronze via Lady Wallace." The sculpture is listed on p. 69 in the 1912 inventory taken of Scott's Paris residence at Rue Lafitte after his death: [in the Grand Galerie] "Statuettes en bronze patine: Ulysse Bandant son arc par Rousseau [sic]." However, it cannot be determined with certainty that the sculpture had been acquired by either Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th marquess of Hertford (1800-1870) or his illegitimate son and designated heir, Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), from whom Lady Wallace's collection came via inheritance. See also the letter of 18 January 1978 from Robert Cecil, assistant to the director of The Wallace Collection, to Edward Nygren of the Corcoran, in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978.

Bibliography

1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 3.
1968
M. Knoedler and Co. The French Bronze. New York, 1968: repro. 56.

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