Prometheus Attacked by the Eagle, n.d.

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 81.28 × 38.1 × 35.56 cm (32 × 15 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.246

Artists / Makers

Charles Renaud (sculptor) French, 1756 - 1817

Image Use

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Provenance

Sir Richard Wallace [1818-1890], London and Paris;[1] by inheritance to his wife, 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;[2] 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]; bequest April 1926 to the Corcorcan Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The sculpture is listed in the Hertford House inventory made in 1890 after Wallace's death; see the faxed letter of 6 December 2000 from Robert Wenley of The Wallace Collection, London, to Laura Coyle of the Corcoran (in NGA curatorial files).

[2] The 1912 inventory of the Wallace residence at Rue Lafitte in Paris, made after Scott's death, included on p. 68, in the Grand Galerie: "Groupe en bronze patiné, 'Prometée dévoré par un aigle' (signé Renaud, mil sept cent soixante treize)...8000" (see the Wenley letter referenced in note 1).

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Sackville-West, Lady Sackville, Victoria
Scott, John Murray, Sir
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques
Wallace, 1st bt., Richard, Sir
Wallace, Amélie-Julie- Charlotte Castelnau, Lady

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978.

1989: The William A. Clark Collection: Treasures of a Copper King, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings; Montana Historical Center, Helena, 6 May - 7 October 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 3.