Countess Jean Isaac de Thelusson, 1791

  • Jean-Antoine Houdon, French, 1741-1828

Bronze

  • Overall: 33 5/8 × 22 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (85.4 × 58.1 × 25.7 cm) Overall (bust): 28 1/8 × 22 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (71.4 × 58.1 × 25.7 cm) Overall (base): 5 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (13.3 × 18.7 cm)

Gift of Leslie H. Green

53.276

On View

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Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Signed and dated, on back: houdon f. 1791

Mme. Balsan (Paris, France and Palm Beach, Florida, USA)

Leslie H. Green 1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Madame de Thélusson by Jean Antoine Houdon." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 33, nos. 3/4 (1953–1954): front cover, p. 76. French Painting and Sculpture of the 18th Century. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1935, no. 14. Exhibition Honoring Hazel Barker King. Exh. cat., Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin, 1952, no. 4. Giacometti, G. Le Statuaire Jean-Antoine Houdon et Son Epoque. Paris, 1918-1919, vol. 1, p. 152; vol. 3, p. 235. Girod de l'Ain, Gabriel. "Les Thellusson et les Artistes." Geneva, new series, 1956, pp 153-254, fig. 60 (ill.). Giocometti, G. La Vie et L'oeuvre de Houdon. Paris, 1929, vol. 2, pp. 147-150. Style, Truth and the Portrait. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Ohio, no. 62. Brookner, A. Jacques-Louis David. New York, 1980, p. 94. French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, pp. 14 (ill.), 19, no. 18. Derstine, Andria. "Recent Research on Jean-Marc Nattier's 'Portrait of a Woman as a Vestal Virgin.'" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 83, no. 1/4 (2009): 22–37, pp. 28.

Jean-Antoine Houdon, Countess Jean Isaac de Thelusson, 1791, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Leslie H. Green, 53.276.