About the Artwork
Perseus Rescuing Andromeda
ca. 1786
Joseph Chinard
1756-1813
French
Unknown
Terracotta
Overall: 23 1/2 × 10 1/8 inches (59.7 × 25.7 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund, and funds from Mr. and Mrs. Randolph J. Agley; with gifts from John L. Booth, Mrs. Frances G. Boynton, Mrs. William Clay, Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, Lillian Henkel Haass, Mrs. Allan Shelden, Harry G. Sperling, Robert H. Tannahill, Virginia Booth Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, City of Detroit by exchange
1996.32
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on circular base of main figural group: ESQUISSE DU I PRIX REMPORTE A ROME AU CONCOURS DE L'ANNEE 1786 PAR J. CHINARD. Inscribed, on circular plinth, above the heads of each figure: CASSIOPEE, MINERVE, ANDROMEDE, PERSE[E], VICTOIRE, NEREIDE, RENOMMEE.
Provenance
probably commissioned by M. Terray (Lyon, France)
M. le Marquis de Biron Collection
H. F. Dawson Collection (New York, New York, USA)
(Seligmann & Co., New York, New York, USA)
Jacques Leon Stern Collection
November 3, 1950, (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 156
Alfred C. Chapin Collection (New York, New York, USA)
Baron Cassel van Doorn Collection
December 9, 1955, (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 273
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Sr. Collection
November 29, 1975, (Sotheby Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 91
British Railway Pension Fund Collection
July 4, 1996, (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 87
1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Vitry, Paul. Exposition d'oeuvre du sculpteur, Chinard de Lyon. Paris, 1909, no. 4.
Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Francaise au Dix-Huiteme Siecle. Paris, 1910, reprint 1970, volume I, p.198.
Rocher-Janeau, M. "Perseus et Andromee de Chinard: A propos de deux groupes du musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon." Bulletin des Musées et Monuments Lyonnais (1961): no. 2 (fig. 2) pp. 345-359.
Darr, A. and T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 409, no. XII (color ill.).
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Joseph Chinard, Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, ca. 1786, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, et al., 1996.32.
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