Charles-Léonce-Victor, Duc de Broglie
model c. 1832/1835, cast 1929/1950
Artist, French, 1808 - 1879
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G8
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 14.9 x 12.7 x 9.5 cm (5 7/8 x 5 x 3 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1951.17.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Henri M. Petiet, Paris), c. June 1950; sold 2 March 1951 to Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania;[1] gift 1951 to NGA.
[1] Charles Philipon, editor of La Caricature, having commissioned and paid Daumier to execute maquettes for a gallery of busts to be printed as lithographs, owned the clay figures outright, and they remained with his family after he died in 1862. They were purchased in 1927 from Philipon's descendants by dealer-publisher Maurice Le Garrec, who commissioned the Barbedienne foundry in Paris to cast the full set of thirty-six figures, twelve busts at a time. The first set was made available by subscription in 1929-1930, the second set apparently in early 1940, and the final set by around 1950. Lessing Rosenwald purchased each of his three groups of twelve shortly after they were made available. The Barbedienne foundry returned the orginal clays and plaster molds to Le Garrec's widow when it ceased operation in the early 1950s. Subsequently Madame Le Garrec commissioned three full sets of the busts from another foundry, Valsuani, and the clays and molds were destroyed when this edition was completed in March 1965. (See the complete discussion of the busts by Suzanne Glover Lindsay in the NGA systematic catalogue, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 2000: 119-125.)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Honoré Daumier, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960, no cat., as Soult.
1969
Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, no. 36c, repro., as Unknown ("Soult").
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist, as Bust of an Unknown Man ("Soult?").
1999
Daumier: 1808-1879, Nat. Gal. of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Phillips Coll., Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 43b, repro., as Berryer or Huguet de Sémonville?, usually identified as Soult (shown only in Washington)
Bibliography
1952
Gobin, Maurice. Daumier Sculpteur, 1808-1879. Geneva, 1952: no. 30.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 150, as one of The Deputies, complete set of 36 bronze busts.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 59, repro.
2000
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 133-135, color repro.
Inscriptions
stamped in the wax positive on lower right shoulder, in incised circle: M.L.G. [Maurcie Le Garrec]; cold-stamped below: BRONZE; inside, in incised circle: 23/25
Wikidata ID
Q63809593