About the Artwork
Pair of Firedogs
ca. between 1770 and 1780
Pierre Gouthière
1732-1814
French
Unknown
Gilt bronze
Overall: 19 1/2 × 18 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (49.5 × 47.6 × 16.5 cm)
Furniture Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.211.A
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on a circular paper label on the back: P/255/29204/2
Provenance
Marquis da Foz, Lisbon
José Guedes de Queiroz
his sale, Christie's, London, June 10, 1892, lot 57
George Jay Gould (d. 1923), Lakewood, NJ
Duveen Brothers (dealer), New York
acquired from Duveen in 1932 by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI
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Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 10, 1892, lot 57.
A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna THomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, not paginated.
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1939, vol. I, not paginated.
"C.I.N.O.A." in L'oeil, no. 184 (April 1970): pp. 52-61.
Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51, p. 52 (ill.).
Sales cat., Nouveau Drouot. Paris, March 30-31, 1987, lot 102.
Madame du Barry, de Versailles à Louveciennes. Exh. cat., Marly-Le-Roi-Louveciennes, Musée Promenad. Louveciennes, 1992, pp. 59, 69, 80, no. 122.
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. 30, pp. 125-126 (ill.).
Baulez, Christian, Charlotte Vignon, et al. Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court. Exh. cat., The Frick Collection. New York, 2016, p. 230.
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Pierre Gouthière, Pair of Firedogs, ca. between 1770 and 1780, gilt bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.211.A.
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