Juno with Her Peacock
model c. 1840, cast after 1855
Artist, French, 1795 - 1875
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G8
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 28 x 38 x 15.1 cm (11 x 14 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1986.61.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Geneva; (art dealer, Geneva); sold by 1986 to (Pegasus Fine Arts, New York);[1] purchased 24 October 1986 by NGA.
[1] Letter to the author dated 14 November 1990 from the late Joseph J. Wade, Pegasus Fine Arts (in NGA curatorial files). The dealer in Geneva had the sculpture on consignment.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 26, 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: 42-45, color repro.
Inscriptions
incised into model on left front of base (enhanced after casting): BARYE
Wikidata ID
Q63860705