Philippe, Duc D'Orleans

second half 19th century

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 81.3 x 68.7 x 41.5 cm (32 x 27 1/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.4.88

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1940 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.[1]
[1] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976: 97-98. Middeldorf's provenance included an earlier owner as "Barthélemy Fabre, Château de la Versaudière, Ladon (Loiret)", accompanied by a note indicating that this information came "from Duveen Galleries, which it has not proved possible to substantiate."

Associated Names

Bibliography

1944

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 78, repro. no. 74

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 203, repro., as Duc de Chaulnes by Antoine Coysevox.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 445, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 164.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 145, repro.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 97-98, as 'Monsieur', Duc D'Orléans (?) by French (?) XIX Century (?).

1990

  • Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton. "Five Portrait Busts: A Question of Identification and Authorship." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990):97-99, 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 Miziołek, Jerzy, ed., in collaboration with Peter Martyn. Falsifications in Polish Collections and Abroad. Warsaw, 2001: 161-179, esp. 162-163 (type I.6), repro. 178, figs. 17-20.

Wikidata ID

Q63810080

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