Painting and Sculpture, 1774/1778

Provenance

Commissioned by Abbé Joseph-Marie Terray [1715-1778], Paris; by inheritance to his nephew and heir, Antoine-Jean Terray, vicomte de Roziéres [1750-1794], Hôtel d'Aumont, Paris, and Château de La Motte-Tilly, near Nogent-sur-Seine; (estate sale of the elder Terray, at the Hôtel d'Aumont by F.C. Joullain & Sons, 20 January 1779, no. 27, withdrawn).[1] Marquis Joseph-Henri Costa de Beauregard [1752-1824], Château de Beauregard, Savoy. his great-grandson, Marquis Charles-Albert Costa de Beauregard [1835-1909], La Motte-Servolex, Savoy. (Charles J. Wertheimer [1842-1911], London).[2] David David-Weill [1871-1952], Neuilly-sur-Seine, by 1921;[3] consigned to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1949 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1940

French XVIIIth Century Sculpture formerly of The David-Weill Collection, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1940, no. 24.

1974

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

Bibliography

1857

Blanc, Charles. Le trésor de la curiosité. 2 vols. Paris, 1857–1858: 1(1857):441.

1921

Réau, Louis. "Une statue de Pigalle retrouvée: la Moisonneuse ou l’Abondance.” Revue de l'Art ancien et modern 39 (January 1921): 50-62, esp. 62.

1925

Henrist, Gabriel. "La Collection David-Weill." L'Amour de l'Art (1925): 14.

1928

Devigne, Marguerite. Laurent Delvaux et ses élèves. (Series: Acade´mie royale de Belgique. Classes des beaux-arts. Me´moires. Collection in-4, 2. se´r., vol. II). Brussels, 1928: pl. 1, fig. 3.

1951

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 262, no. 118, repro.

1959

Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 453, repro.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 172.

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 151, repro.

1972

Kalnein, Wend Graf, and Michael Levey. Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France. Harmondsworth, 1972: 100.

1976

Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 105.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 643, no. 1012, repro.

1988

Scherf, Guilhem. "Un Buste de l'Abbé Raynal à l'Académie de Lyon." Bulletin des Musées et Monuments Lyonnais 1 (1988): 17, repro. fig. 9.

1992

Poulet, Anne L., and Guilhem Scherf. Clodion: 1738-1814. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1992: 307, repro fig. 154.

1993

Bailey, Colin B.. "Mécénat privé? Mécénat public? L'abbé Terray, collectionneur de sculptures contemporaines." In Clodion et la sculpture française de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le service culturel les 20 et 21 mars 1992. Paris, 1993: 202-203, fig. 7.

1993

Bailey, Colin B. "The abbé Terray: An Enlightened Patron of Modern Sculpture." The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1079 (February 1993): 121-132, esp. 125, 126 fig. 76.

1994

Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 224, 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.

2000

National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000:61.

2005

Baillio, Joseph, et al. The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 80 (not in the exhibition).

2023

De Margerie, Laure. French Sculpture: An American Passion. Ghent, 2023: 269-270, fig. 34.

2023

Dickerson, C.D. III and Robert Price. "Restoring Sculpture in Paris After and Before the French Revolution." Daphne Barbour, ed., Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 6 (2023):120, 121 repro (detail), 122 fig. 2, 127,129, 130 fig.10 (detail), 131 figs. 11-12 (details), 132, 133 fig. 15 (detail),

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