Venus Victrix

before 1950

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Artist Richard Guino, Artist Alexis Rudier Foundry, Foundry

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Title Venus Victrix

Artwork Date before 1950

Makers Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Artist) French, 1841-1919 Richard Guino (Artist) French, 1878 - 1952 Alexis Rudier Foundry (Foundry) French, 1874 - 1952

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 74 11/16 × 49 1/2 × 31 9/16 inches (189.7 × 125.7 × 80.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

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. 76.82

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Marks Marked on right side of base: “O”; Behind Venus’s left foot: “Renoir 1914”; Back of base below Renoir signature: “Alexis Rudier Foundeur Paris”

Provenance

Alexis Rudier [d. 1897] (Paris, France)

Curt Valentin [1902-1954] (Paris, France)

Douglas Cooper [1911-1984] (Chateau de Castile, Argilliers, France). (Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York, New York, USA)

1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 1 (1977-78): p. 44 (ill.).

“Principales Acquisitions des Musée en 1977,” Gazette des Beaux Arts: La Chronique Des Arts 91, no. 1310 (March 1978): p. 57, no. 251.

Cantz, Hatje. Renoir in the 20th Century. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Los Angeles and Philadelphia, 2010, cat. 70, pp. 312-316 (ill.).

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after a model by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; after a model by Richard Guino; Alexis Rudier Foundry, Venus Victrix, before 1950, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 76.82.