Saint Barbara
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[None known at this time]
Eugène Kraemer, Paris, by 1913; Purchased at his posthumous sale, Tableaux anciens, Écoles primitives et de la Renaissance…par suite du
décès de M. Eugène Kraemer, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 4, 1913, lot
259, by A. Levy for Raoul Gunsbourg (1860-1955), Monte Carlo and Château de
Cormatin, Cormatin, France [1];
With Annette Lefortier, Paris, by April 9, 1919;
Purchased from Lefortier by Jacques Seligmann and Co., Paris
and New York, stock nos. P7561 and NY5561, April 9, 1919-1949 [2];
Purchased from Jacques Seligmann and Co., through Harold
Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
NOTES:
[1] Gunsbourg, director of the Opéra de Monte Carlo, is
identified as the buyer in a handwritten annotation in the margin of copy 3 of
the sale catalogue housed at the Getty Research Institute. Alternatively, Levy
is listed as the buyer in “Eugene Kraemer Sale,” American Art News 11, no. 34 (June 21, 1913), 7. This is presumably
Armand Levy, a Parisian art dealer who was also active on the city’s musical
scene. Levy was most likely purchasing on Gunsbourg’s behalf.
[2] Dealer Annette Lefortier was Armand Levy’s wife. Levy
and Lefortier were most likely acting as Parisian agents for Gunsbourg. Archives
of American Art, Washington, DC, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Records, box 299,
folder 7, Consular Invoices 1933. Copy in NAMA curatorial files. This sculpture
was lent to NAMA by Jacques Seligmann and Co. for NAMA’s opening exhibition,
December 1933-August 1934.
Catalogue Des Tableaux Anciens; Écoles Primitives et De La Renaissance des XVe et XVIe Siècles; Écoles Anglaise, Espagnole, Flamande, Française, Hollandaise, Italienne Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles; Pastels et Dessins De L’École Française des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles; Objets D’Art et D’Ameublement; Dont La Vente Par suite du décès de M. Eugène Kraemer; Aura Lieu A [sic] Paris; Galerie Georges Petit (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, June 2-5, 1913), 105, as Statue en marbre blanc, plus grande que nature, représentant sainte Barbe, debout, portant un ample vêtement bordé d’hermine avec bracelet, ceinture et chaîne de manteaux; la tête est incliné vers l’épaule gauche et coiffée d’un diadème; du bras droit, elle s’appuie sur la tour. École de Germain Pilon. XVIe siècle.
Jean Babelon, Germain Pilon: biographie et catalogue critiques, l'oeuvre complète de l'artiste reproduite en quatre-vingt-deux héliogravures (Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d’études et de documents, 1927), p. 74, as Sainte Barbe.
Winifred Shields, “Statue of St. Barbara Shows Face of Catherine de Medici: Jewels and Furs Deck Popular Nelson Gallery of Art Statue That Sculptor, Pilon, Made to Resemble Catherine, Queen of France,” The Kansas City Star (August 10, 1951): (repro.), as Statue of St. Barbara.
Louis Réau, “Shorter Notes: A Marble Statue of St. Barbara By Germain Pilon,” trans. Mrs. T.D. Parker, The Art Quarterly XV (1952): 331-33, 335-37, (repro.), as St. Barbara.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 102-03, (repro.), as St. Barbara.
Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961), 254, (repro.), as Saint Barbara.
Denys Sutton, “The Colonel’s Gift,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 3, as St. Barbara [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 3].
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 104, (repro.), as St. Barbara.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 45, (repro.), as Saint Barbara.
