Two Children Personifying Music, c. 1775/1800

  • French

Marble

  • Overall: 9 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 5/8 inches (24 × 14 × 11.8 cm) Including base: 13 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches, 12.7 pounds (33.7 × 14 × 13.3 cm, 5.8 kg)

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

71.174.A

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Beneath the group: 29213/2 Beneath the socle: 29213/2 Both are inventory numbers, perhaps of Duveen Brothers

George Jay Gould [d. 1923], Georgian Court (Lakewood, New Jersey, USA)

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1935, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge [1866-1970], (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lami, Stanislas, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'École Française au XVIIIème Siècle, 2 vols., Paris 1910-11, vol. II, pp. 147-48. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, 3 vols., London 1922-24, vol. II, p. 97, no. 375, pl. 71. A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, Detroit 1939, vol. I, not paginated. Hodgkinson, Terence, The James A. Dee Rothschild Collection at Waddenson Manor: Sculpture, Fribourg 1970, pp. 40-41, no. 13. Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51. Dell, T. et al, The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 25, pp. 112-13, color ill. p. 112 (entry by H. Hawley).

French, Two Children Personifying Music, c. 1775/1800, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.174.A.