Venus Chastising Cupid

c. 1775/1800

Etienne Maurice Falconet French, 1716-1791

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Title Venus Chastising Cupid

Artwork Date c. 1775/1800

Artist Etienne Maurice Falconet

Life Dates 1716-1791

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Marble

Dimensions Overall: 14 7/8 × 7 1/8 × 6 7/16 inches (37.8 × 18.1 × 16.3 cm) Including base: 18 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches, 24 pounds (47.6 × 19.3 cm, 10.9 kg)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.178.A

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Inscriptions On the base: 29393/2 (an inventory number, perhaps of Duveen Brothers).

Provenance

Sir Samuel Edward Scott [1873-1943], Bart., M. P. (Westbury, Northamptonshire, or Lytchet Minster, Dorset, England)

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

1932, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge, (Grosse Pointe, MIichigan, USA)

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

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Published References

Réau, Louis, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, 2 vols., Paris 1922, vol. I, pp. 235-38, pl. XV, vol. II, p. 506.

New York, American Art Association, Works of Art of the Late Judge Elberth H. Gary, sale cat., April 19-21, 1928, lot 252.

Mann, J. G., Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculpture, London 1931, pp. 11-12, no. S28, pl. 9

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, Detroit 1933, not paginated.

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, 2 vols., Detroit 1939, vol. I, not paginated

Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art, Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection, Washington D. C. 1948, p. 133, no. A-110.

Adams, Philip R., "The Anson Room", The Cincinnati Art Museum Bulletin I (October 1950), pp. 3-10, esp. p. 7.

Paris, Palais Galliéra, sale cat. of Baron James de Rothschild, Dec. 1, 1966, lot 95.

Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51.

Levitine, George, The Sculpture of Falconet, New York 1972, pp. 44-45

Dell, T. et al, The Dodge Collection of French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 28, pp. 117-20, color ill. p. 118 (entry by H. Hawley).

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manner of Etienne Maurice Falconet, Venus Chastising Cupid, c. 1775/1800, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.178.A.