About the Artwork
Canapé
ca. 1785
Beauvais Manufactory
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French
Unknown
Silk and wool cover (beauvais tapestry), carved and gilded beechwood frame
Overall: 37 1/2 × 65 1/2 × 30 1/2 inches (95.3 × 166.4 × 77.5 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
F71.58
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
(Duveen Brothers, dealer, New York, New York, USA)
1932, acquired from Duveen by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, unpaginated.
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, unpaginated.
The Jaime Ortiz-Patino Collection: French Furniture and Decorations. Sales cat., New York, May 20, 1992, lot 90.
Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 21, pp. 96-8, ill. p. 97.
Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, mentioned in checklist, p. 75.
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Beauvais Manufactory, Canapé, ca. 1785, silk and wool cover (Beauvais tapestry), carved and gilded beechwood frame. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, F71.58.
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