Charles, Duc de Berry

second half 19th century

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 96 x 67.7 x 42 cm (37 13/16 x 26 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1967.14.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(J.J. Post, Amsterdam).[1] private collection, France;[2] (Heim Gallery, Paris); purchased 30 October 1967 by NGA.
[1] Count Th. de Limburg Stirum, in Brussels, sent Perry Cott a photograph of the bust labelled with Post's name. The photograph, and the correspondence between Cott and Stirum from late 1967 and early 1968, are in NGA curatorial files.
[2] This information was provided by Heim Gallery; see their prosepectus for the bust in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1990

  • Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton. "Five Portrait Busts: A Question of Identification and Authorship." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990): 95-97, 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 Jerzy Miziolek, ed., in collaboration with Peter Martyn. Falsifications in Polish Collections and Abroad. Warsaw, 2001: 161-179, esp. 164-165 (type V.1), repro. 177, fig. 13.

2013

  • Moskowitz, Anita F. Forging Authenticity: Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence. Florence, 2013: 32, fig. 123.

Wikidata ID

Q63854788

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