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CIRCLE OF EDME BOUCHARDON (1698-1762), CIRCA 1750
parcel-gilt bronze; on an ormolu-mounted cylindrical bleu turquin marble base
27 1/2 in. (70 cm.) high; 37 3/4 in. (96 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Collection of Marcel Cottreau; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12 June 1919, lot 143.
‌Collection of T.-P. Thorne; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1922, lot 143, where acquired by M. Guiraud (according to Thorlacius-Ussing, op. cit., p. 299).
C‌ollection of Madame André Saint; Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 20-21 May 1935, lot 96, ill. pl. XXVII.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
‌H. Jouin, Jacques Saly, Macon, 1896, pp. 117-118.
G. Migeon, 'La Collection de M. Le Baron de Schlichting', Les Arts, July 1902, p. 10, illustrated p. 14.
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'Ecole Française au dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1911, pp. 321-325.
G. Briere, 'La Collection Schlichting au Musée du Louvre', Gazette des Beaux Arts, June 1920, p. 387.
L. Reau, Etienne-Maurice Falconet Paris, 1922, I, pp. 252-253.
L. Thorlacius-Ussing, 'Etudes sur l'activité de Saly avant son voyage en Denmark', From the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, III, 1942, pp. 293-300.
X. Salmon ed., Madame de Pompadour et les Arts, Paris, 2002.
A.-L. Desmas et al, Bouchardon Royal Artist of the Enlightenment, Los Angeles, 2016.
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