Marble Altar with Skulls of Bulls

ca. between 1752 and 1756

Augustin Pajou French, 1730-1809

Not On View

Image Only Image + Details All Images High Resolution TIFF Metadata

About the Artwork

Please note: This section is empty
Markings

Please note: This section is empty

This section contains information about signatures, inscriptions and/or markings an object may have.
Provenance

Please note: This section is empty

Provenance is a record of an object's ownership. We are continually researching and updating this information to show a more accurate record and to ensure that this object was ethically and legally obtained.

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:
Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Published References

Please note: This section is empty

We regularly update our object record as new research and findings emerge, and we welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Catalogue Raisonné

Please note: This section is empty

A catalogue raisonné is an annotated listing of artworks created by an artist across different media.
Credit Line for Reproduction

Please note: This section is empty

The credit line includes information about the object, such as the artist, title, date, and medium. Also listed is its ownership, the manner in which it was acquired, and its accession number. This information must be cited alongside the object whenever it is shown or reproduced.

About the Artwork

Title Marble Altar with Skulls of Bulls

Artwork Date ca. between 1752 and 1756

Artist Augustin Pajou

Life Dates 1730-1809

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 13/16 inches (17.9 × 12.2 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 54.454.B

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left: du capitolle

Provenance

Michel Benisovich (New York, New York, USA)

1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:

Provenance page

Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.

Suggest Feedback

Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 218, no. 104.

Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, p. 191.

Kindly share your feedback or any additional information, as this record is still a work in progress and may need further refinement.

Suggest Feedback

Catalogue Raisoneé

Please note: This section is empty

Credit Line for Reproduction

Augustin Pajou, Marble Altar with Skulls of Bulls, ca. between 1752 and 1756, pen and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 54.454.B.

Feedback

We regularly update our object record as new research and findings emerge, and we welcome your feedback for correction or improvement.

Suggest Feedback

1 / 1

Image Only Image + Details All Images High Resolution TIFF Metadata

Marble Altar with Skulls of Bulls

Not On View

About the Artwork

Markings

Provenance

Exhibition History

Published References

Catalogue Raisoneé

Credit Line for Reproduction

More by Artist

Pilgrims in Front of the Porta Santa at Saint Peter's

Bust of a Young Woman

Religious Scene with Pope and Acolytes

The Young Farmer

Renaissance Building and Medieval Gate

Related Works

Gaub on the Rhine, Castle of Gutenfels

Profile of a Man

African Dancers

Bird

Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Female Nude

Female Nude

Feedback