Chloris Caressed by Zephyr, model 1847, cast 1847/1904

Not on View

Medium

plaster

Dimensions

overall: 29.5 x 8.3 x 7.8 cm (11 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Esther J. Willcox and Esther W. Putnam

Accession Number

1981.55.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Jacques Pradier (artist) French, 1790 - 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

apparently stamped into the model from which plaster was cast, on bottom rim, at left, of self-base: J. PRADIER

Provenance

Purchased reportedly in Paris in the late 1920s by Esther Leavens Jenkins Willcox [1898-1981], New York; by inheritance to her daughter, Esther Willcox Putnam, McLean, Virginia;[1] gift 1981 to NGA.

[1] Letter, from Esther W. Putnam to Douglas Lewis dated 16 October 1981 (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Putnam, Esther W.
Willcox, Esther Leavens Jenkins

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 176, 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: 299-302, color repro.