About the Artwork
The Statue of Liberty
1876
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
1834 - 1904
French
Unknown
Cast zinc with bronze patina
Overall: 27 1/4 × 6 inches (69.2 × 15.2 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Museum Purchase, Mary Adelaide Hester Fund
2010.12
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Markings
Signed: Bartholdi 1876
Inscribed: Registered FB Washington/ 31 August 1876/ No 9939 G
Marked: C. Avoiron, Paris [Foundry Mark]
Provenance
(David & Constance Yates, New York, New York, USA)
2010-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): 501–512, p. 509 (ill.).
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, The Statue of Liberty, 1876, cast zinc with bronze patina. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Mary Adelaide Hester Fund, 2010.12.
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