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Portrait of Anne Robert Turgot, Baron of Laulne
Inscriptions
Inscribed: houdon 1778 (incised script, under surface of right shoulder); marked: ACADEM. ROYALE DE PEINTURE ET SCUPT. HOUDON SC (embosssed circular red wax seal on reverse of shaft)
Provenance
André Camoin, Paris, before 1928 [see Paris 1928 exh. cat. and Réau 1964]. Paul Gouvert, Paris, before 1960; sold, his estate sale, Etienne Ader, Paris, May 10, 1960, lot 68, to Edmond Courty, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées. Private collection, France [letter from William Redford, Gerald Kerin, Ltd., May 14, 2002] before 1962; sold to Gerald Kerin, Ltd., London, before 1962; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galeries Buvelot, "Exposition du Centenaire de Houdon." 5 June - 5 July 1928, p. 70, cat. 67. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago," 24 January – 28 March, 1976, p. 116, cat. 197.
Publications
Supplément a la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, La Chronique des Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1153 (1965), p. 53, fig. 212. Louis Reau, Houdon Sa vie et son oeuvre, II (Paris, 1964), p. 43, fig. 197. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1963-64 (Chicago, 1964), p. 15, ill. Art Institure of Chicago, Annual Report 1962-63 (Chicago, 1963), p. 15. Etienne Ader, Paris, Succession de Monsieur Paul Gouvert, May 10, 1960, lot 68. Georges Giacometti, La Vie et l’oeuvre de Houdon (Paris, 1929), p. 156, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828)
- Date
- 1778
- Medium
- Patinated plaster
- Dimensions
- 84.5 × 55.9 cm (33 1/4 × 22 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- bust/head
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Accession no.
- 1962.820
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