About the Artwork
Marc Antoine de Launay
1778
Jean Pierre Tassaert
1727-1788
French
Unknown
Marble
Overall: 28 1/8 × 17 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (71.4 × 45.1 × 28.6 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
61.230
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, on back: SCULPTE EN 1778 } PAR SON AMY } TASSAERT
Inscribed, on back: MARC ANTOINE ANDRE / DE LA HAIE DE LAUNAY FRANCAIS / DE NATION CONSEILLER INTIME / DES FINANCES DE S. M. / LE ROI DE PRUSSE /
Provenance
(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thieme-Becker, vol. 32, pp. 453-456.
Reau, L. Histoire de l'Expansion de l'Art Français, vol. II, p. 184.
Bulletin of the DIA 41, no. 1 (1961): pp. 6-8, pp. 5, 7 (ills).
The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 16.
Reau, L. Revue Belge d'Archeologie et d'Histoire (1934): pp. 289-309, note p. 306.
Sherf, G. "Un Buste de l'Abbe Raynal a l'Academie de Lyon." Bulletin des Musées et Monuments Lyonnais, no. 1 (1988): p. 18, fig. 10 (ill.).
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Jean Pierre Tassaert, Marc Antoine de Launay, 1778, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 61.230.
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