About the Artwork
Portrait of Charlotte Meissonier
1880
Vincenzo Gemito
1852-1929
Italian
Unknown
Terracotta
Including base: 16 5/16 × 12 3/8 × 8 1/4 inches (41.4 × 31.5 × 21 cm)
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1995.31
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Markings
Signed, on right shoulder: Gemito
Inscribed, on metal label on socle: Charlotte Meissonier
Provenance
the painter Edouard Detaille [1848-1912], a pupil of Meissonier and godfather of Charlotte Meissonier
by descent to the heirs of Edouard Detaille
aquired by private collection
purchased by (Galerie Elstir, Paris, France)
1995-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA: Supplement, Annual Report 69, nos. 3/4 (1995): p. 29.
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. 410, no. XVI (ill.).
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, II, cat. 181.
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Vincenzo Gemito, Portrait of Charlotte Meissonier, 1880, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1995.31.
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