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Object Details

Artist
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875
Date
1872
Medium
Terra-cotta
Dimensions
25 1/4 x 17 x 16 in. (64.1 x 43.2 x 40.6 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.829

The Artist/Atelier, Paris
[Hotel Drouot, Paris, sale "Terre cuites, bronzes, marbres de Carpeaux," 28 December 1874, no. 31]
Private Collection, France
Hotel Drouot, Paris, "Tableaux Modernes," 19 March 1965, no. 71
Wildenstein, New York, to 14 January 1966
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 14 January-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
WILDENSTEIN, New York. "Carpeaux," 7 December 1965-15 January 1966, no. 23.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 42.

UNSIGNED. "Hirshhorn Collection," Ceramics Monthly 23/5 (May 1975), ill. p. 23.

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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