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Head of a Bacchante

Former TitlePortrait Bust of a Girl
Artist Joseph-Charles Marin (French, 1759 - 1834)
Dateca. 1800
MediumPink terracotta on painted and gilded oak base
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 × 8 × 5 1/2 inches (44.45 × 20.32 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1576
On View
Not on view
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Exhibition History

Salon de 1795, Grand Sallon du Museum, au Louvre, Paris, 1795, no. 1058, as Un Bacchante.

 

Inaugural Exhibition, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo, 1933, hors. cat.

 

The Century of Mozart, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 15–March 4, 1956, no. 72, as Smiling Girl.  

Provenance
C. L. Blair, by 1932;


Purchased from Blair by French and Company, New York, stock no. 17638, August 10, 1932-December 15, 1933 [1];


Purchased from French and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.


NOTES:


[1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, French and Company Stock Sheets, box 17, folder 3.



Published References

Explication des Ouvrages de Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture, Gravure, Dessins, Modelés, etc., exh. cat. (Paris: Grand Sallon du Museum, au Louvre, 1795), 72, as Un Bacchante [repr. in Paris Salons de 1793, 1795 (New York : Garland Publishing, 1977), 72, as Un Bacchante].

 

Maurice Quinquenet, Un élève de Clodion, Joseph-Charles Marin, 1759-1834 (Paris: R. Lacoste, 1948), 57.

 

“The Century of Mozart,” exh. cat. The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 1, no. 1, (January 1956), 30, as Smiling Girl.  

 

Jacques Fischer and F. J. B. Watson, The French Bronze, 1500 to 1800 (New York: M. Knoedler and Co., 1968), 90.

 

Anne L. Poulet and Guilhem Scherf, Clodion 1738-1814, exh. cat. (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992), 405.

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