About the Artwork
Maternity
ca. between 1793 and 1795
Joseph Charles Marin
1759-1834
French
Unknown
Terracotta, painted and gilded wood
Overall: 17 1/4 × 11 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (43.8 × 30.2 × 29.2 cm) Overall (sculpture): 17 1/4 × 11 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (43.8 × 30.2 × 29.2 cm) Overall (base): 3 3/16 × 11 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (8.1 × 30.2 × 29.2 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema
71.294
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on circular drum: MARIN
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Marks, in red, painted on carved gilt wood Louis XVI plinth: 758B
Provenance
M. Pillot
Marquis de Karrefort (?)
1911, purchased by (Jacques Seligmann, Paris, France)
sold to George Blumenthal (New York, New York, USA)
Mortimer L. Schiff [d. 1931]
by descent to his son, John Mortimer Schiff (New York, New York, USA)
June 22-23, 1938, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Mortimer L. Schiff estate sale, lot 29
1938, purchased by (Jacques Seligmann and Company, Paris, France) [for 950 guineas]
purchased by (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)
ca. 1938-1939, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
June 24, 1971, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Anna Thomson Dodge sale, lot 6
Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Livret, Salon of 1795. Paris, no. 1062.
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Scupture, Collection des Livrets des Anciennes Expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'à 1800, 42 vols. Paris, 1869-72, vol. XXXVIII (1871), p. 69 (Salon of 1795), no. 1062.
Lami, S. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'École Française au XVIIIène Siècle, 2 vols. Paris, 1910-1911, vol. II, pp. 109, 112.
Wehle, Harry B. and Preston Remington. French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1935, no. 117.
Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 22-23, 1938, lot 29.
Quinquinet, M. Un Élève de Clodion, Joseph-Charles Marin, 1759-1814. Paris, 1948, pp. 13-14, 55-56.
London, Christie's, sale cat., June 24, 1971, lot 6.
Cummings, F.J. "Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 51, no. 1 (1971) pp. 12-14, p. 13 (ill.).
Darr, Alan Phipps. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, unnumbered, ill. p. 22 (fig. 005).
Poulet, Anne L. and Guilhem Scherf. Clodion 1738-1814. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1992, pp. 405, 407 (fig. 222).
Joseph-Charles Marin 1759-1834. Exh. cat. Galerie Patrice Bellanger. Paris, 1992, p. 14.
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. 23, pp. 105-108 (color ill.) p. 107.
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Joseph Charles Marin, Maternity, ca. between 1793 and 1795, terracotta, painted and gilded wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema, 71.294.
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