Alphonse Legros, model c. 1876, cast possibly 1879/1920

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G2

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 34.1 x 23.7 x 23.7 cm (13 7/16 x 9 5/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of George Matthew Adams in memory of his mother, Lydia Havens Adams

Accession Number

1956.14.2

Artists / Makers

Aimé-Jules Dalou (artist) French, 1838 - 1902

Image Use

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Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); sold possibly by the 1920s and definitely by June 1932 to George Matthew Adams [1878-1962], Riverdale, New York;[1] gift 1956 to NGA.

[1] See the letters from Adams to Harold Wright of Colnaghi, dated 8 June 1932 and 20 December 1946 (originals in the Wright Papers, MS Wright L259, Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library, Scotland; copies in NGA curatorial files). The Dalou bust complemented the five etchings by Legros for which Adams was best known as a collector, lent to the National Gallery at the same time as the bronze and given one by one from 1947 to 1963.

Associated Names

Adams, George Matthew
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.

Exhibition History

1974: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 150.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 133, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 50, 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: 108-111, color repro.