Flora, ca. between 1775 and 1800

  • Etienne Maurice Falconet, French, 1716-1791

Marble

  • Overall: 15 1/4 × 8 inches (38.7 × 20.3 cm)

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

71.176

On View

  • Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Inscribed, on base: 29338 [Duveen Brothers inventory number]

George Jay Gould [d. 1923] (Georgian Court, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA)

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1935, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Gonse, Louis. Les Chefs-D'Oeuvre des Musées de France: Sculpture, Dessins, Objets d'Art. Paris, 1904, pp. 286-287. Hildebrandt, Edmund. É.-M. Falconet. Strasbourg, 1908, p. 23, n. 3, pl. XIII (fig. 21). Vitry, Paul. "Le legs de Mme Emile Masson aux Musées Nationaux." Les Musées de France 4 (1912): pp. 62-63. Réau, Louis Étienne-Maurice Falconet, 2 vols. Paris, 1922, vol. I, pp. 165-70, vol. II, p. 505. A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, 2 vols. Detroit 1939, vol. 1, not paginated. Wark, Robert R. Sculpture in the Huntington Collection. San Marino, CA, 1959, p. 72, pls. XXIX, XXXI. Courajod, Louis, ed. Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux Marchand-Bijoutier Ordinaire du Roi 1748-1758 (1873), 2 vols. Paris 1965, vol. 1, p. ccli. Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51. Hawley, H.H. "Tassaert's Venus, Not Falconet's Flora." La Scultura, Studi in Onore di Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, in Antologia di Belle Arti. 1994, pp. 100-106. Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 26, pp. 113-115 (color ill.) p. 114.

manner of Etienne Maurice Falconet, Flora, ca. between 1775 and 1800, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.176.