Jules-David Cromot, Baron du Bourg, c. 1757

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 54

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 79.7 x 48.3 x 41.9 cm (31 3/8 x 19 x 16 1/2 in.)
gross weight: 285 lb. (129.275 kg)

Credit Line

Gift of Camille de Nucheze, direct descendant, and her husband, John Hadley Cox

Accession Number

1985.39.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II (artist) French, 1704 - 1778

Image Use

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Provenance

The sitter [1725-1788]; by descent in the family to his great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter, Camille de Nuchèze [Mrs. John Hadley Cox], Las Vegas;[1] gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] See details of the family genealogy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Cox, John Hadley, Mr. and Mrs.
Cromot, Baron du Bourg, Jules-David

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 133, 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.

2008: Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 463, 464 fig. 5.