About the Artwork
Venus Instructing Cupid
c. 1775/1800
Etienne Maurice Falconet
1716-1791
French
Unknown
Marble
Overall: 13 3/4 × 7 × 5 9/16 inches (34.9 × 17.8 × 14.1 cm) Including base: 17 5/8 × 7 5/8 inches, 24.3 pounds (44.7 × 19.3 cm, 11 kg) Overall (base): 3 7/8 × 7 5/8 inches (9.8 × 19.3 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.179
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Markings
Beneath 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 (dealer) (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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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).
Margerie, Laure de, and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain. French Sculpture in America: An American Passion. Ghent/France, 2023, pp. 247-249.
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