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Michel Anguier

Ceres Searching for Persephone, model 1652, cast probably 1652/1670s

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 53.9 x 27.9 x 25.1 cm (21 1/4 x 11 x 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1989.44.1

Artists / Makers

Michel Anguier (artist) French, 1612 - 1686

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Inscription

on top of base: 93A in red, wiped through black lacquer

Provenance

Private collection, America, c. 1965; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 1985, no. 204). (Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York); purchased 8 September 1989 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hall Fine Arts, Michael
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

2008: Bronzes Français de la Penaissance au Siècle des lumières, Musée du Louvre, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008-2009, no. 57, repro.

Bibliography

1966: Radcliffe, Anthony. European Bronze Statuettes. London, 1966: 109, pl. VII.

1971: Europäische Barockplastik am Niederrhein. Grupello und seine Zeit. Exh. cat. Düsseldorf, 1971: 351-352, no. 320, pl. 209.

1973: Souchal, François. "La Collection du Sculpteur Girardon d'après son inventaire après décès." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 82 (July-August 1973): 17, 50.

1976: Wardropper, Ian. "Michel Anguier's Series of Bronze Gods and Goddesses: A Re-examination." Marysas 18 (1976): 23-36.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 22, repro.

1999: Dabbs, Julia Kathleen. "Embodying Ethos: Anguier, Poussin, and the Concept of Corporal Expression in the French Academy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1999: 25-26, 48, fig. 11.

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

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): 480 n. 57.

2009: Moureyre, Françoise de la. "La Junon en pierre de Michel Anguier retrouvée. Nouvelles considérations sur les 'dieux et déesses'." La Tribune de l'Art (16 June 2009, accessed online; https://www.latribunedelart.com/la-junon-en-pierre-de-michel-anguier-retrouvee-nouvelles-considerations-sur-les-dieux-et-deesses).

2010: Warren, Jeremy. Beauty & Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection [Catalogue of the Peter Marino Collection, Volume 1]. London, 2010: 150-157, fig. 2.