Charles, Duc de Berry, second half 19th century

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 96 x 67.7 x 42 cm (37 13/16 x 26 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1967.14.1

Artists / Makers

Lazzerini Workshop (sculptor)

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Provenance

(J.J. Post, Amsterdam).[1] private collection, France;[2] (Heim Gallery, Paris); purchased 30 October 1967 by NGA.

[1] Count Th. de Limburg Stirum, in Brussels, sent Perry Cott a photograph of the bust labelled with Post's name. The photograph, and the correspondence between Cott and Stirum from late 1967 and early 1968, are in NGA curatorial files.

[2] This information was provided by Heim Gallery; see their prosepectus for the bust in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Heim Gallery Ltd.
J.J. Post
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1969: In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1990: Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton. "Five Portrait Busts: A Question of Identification and Authorship." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990): 95-97, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 177, repro.

1999: Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow, and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.

2001: Lewis, Douglas. “A series of historicizing busts of the nineteenth century.” In Jerzy Miziolek, ed., in collaboration with Peter Martyn. Falsifications in Polish Collections and Abroad. Warsaw, 2001: 161-179, esp. 164-165 (type V.1), repro. 177, fig. 13.

2013: Moskowitz, Anita F. Forging Authenticity: Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence. Florence, 2013: 32, fig. 123.