About the Artwork
Fame
ca. 1902
Louis-Ernest Barrias (Artist) French, 1841-1905 Susse Frères (Foundry)
Ivory and silvered bronze with turquoise and gilt bronze decoration on a base of fluorite (green and purple mineral)
Overall (figure): 29 1/2 × 19 × 21 inches (74.9 × 48.3 × 53.3 cm) Overall (base): 4 1/4 × 6 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (10.8 × 17.1 × 17.1 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund
1986.49
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Markings
Signed, on spherical base, at right: E. Barrias
Inscribed, at rear of spherical base: SUSSE FRÈRES FONDEURS| [crossed hammer, tongs and calipers]
Provenance
by 1972, (Michael Hall Fine Arts New York, New York, USA)
by 1980, David Daniels (New York, New York, USA)
(Shepherd Associates Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sculpture from the David Daniels Collection. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1980, no. 42 (cover ill.).
Nineteenth Century French and Western European Sculpture in Bronze and Other Media. Sales cat., Shepherd Gallery Associates. New York, 1985, no. 82 (ill.).
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Louis-Ernest Barrias; Susse Frères, Fame, ca. 1902, ivory and silvered bronze with turquoise and gilt bronze decoration on a base of fluorite (green and purple mineral). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, 1986.49.
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