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Bust of Léonide Leblanc

Former TitleBust of Sidonie Leblonde
Artist Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (French, 1831 - 1900)
Dateca. 1883
MediumWhite marble
DimensionsOverall: 24 3/4 × 17 × 8 7/8 inches (62.87 × 43.18 × 22.54 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number43-34
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On view
Gallery Location
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Exhibition History

Exposition nationale, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, opened September 15, 1883, no. 985, as Mlle Léonide Leblanc.

 

Missouri Governor’s Mansion, Jefferson City, MO, 1982-1989.

Provenance

Léonide Leblanc (1842–1894), Paris, ca. 1883–1894;


Sold at her posthumous sale, Magnifiques Joyaux, Cinq Colliers de perles, Collier Jardinière en brillants, perles et pierres de couleur, Parures en Emeraudes, Saphirs, Rubis, Perles, Dentelles, Lingerie, Garde-Robe, Éventails, Boites; Objets d’Art et de Riche Ameublement Époque et Styles Louis XV et Louis XVI, Nombreuse Argenterie Artistique et de Table; Tableaux Anciens et Modernes, Tentures, Tapisseries, Étoffes Dépendant de la succession de Mme Léonide Leblanc, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 24, 1894, no. 361, as Beau buste en marbre de Mme Léonide Leblanc;


Lemaire, by September 22, 1938;


Purchased from Lemaire by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P15096, as Sidonie Leblond, September 22, 1938–December 13, 1943 [1];


Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.


NOTES:


[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Modern sculptures and paintings, Object inventory card number P15096.



Published References

F.-G. Dumas, ed., Annuaire illustré des Beaux-Arts et Catalogue illustré de l’Exposition nationale: Revue Artistique Universelle (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), 28, as Mlle Léonide Leblanc.

 

Paul Demeny, “Le Salon National,” La Jeune France (October 1, 1883): 368, as Mlle Léonide Leblanc.

 

Albert Pinard, “Le Salon Triennal: Sculpture,” Le Radical 3, no. 281 (October 8, 1883): 1, as Mlle Léonide Leblanc.

 

La Gazette de France (November 12, 1883), as Mlle Léonide Leblanc.

 

Henry Jouin, La Sculpture aux salons de 1881, 1882, 1883, et à l’Exposition nationale de 1883 (Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 1884), 111–12, as Madame Léonide Leblanc.

 

Catalogue des Magnifiques Joyaux, Cinq Colliers de perles, Collier Jardinière en brillants, perles et pierres de couleur, Parures en Emeraudes, Saphirs, Rubis, Perles, Dentelles, Lingerie, Garde-Robe, Éventails, Boites; Objets d’Art et de Riche Ameublement Époque et Styles Louis XV et Louis XVI, Nombreuse Argenterie Artistique et de Table; Tableaux Anciens et Modernes, Tentures, Tapisseries, Étoffes Dépendant de la succession de Mme Léonide Leblanc, (Paris: Léon Tual, G. Duchesne, et E. Boudin, 1894), 35, as Beau buste en marbre de Mme Léonide Leblanc.

 

Arthur Bloche, “Le Carnet de l’Amateur,” Le Gaulois 28, no. 5157 (April 26, 1894): 3, as Buste de Mme Léonide Leblanc.

 

Firmin Javel, “Alexandre Falguière, sa Vie et son Œuvre,” l’Art Français (January 19, 1895) [repr., in Paul Arène et al., Alexandre Falguière: Sculpteur et Peintre (Paris: Société Anonyme La Plume, 1898), 28], as Léonide Leblanc.

 

Catherine Futter et al., Bloch Galleries: Highlights from the Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 52, (repro.), as Bust of Sidonie Leblonde.
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