Clio, Muse of History

between 1680 and 1683

Christophe Veyrier French, 1637-1689

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European: Poussin, Level 2, South Wing

Clio, Muse of History: 1 of Collection Gallery

Clio, Muse of History: 2 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Clio, Muse of History

Artwork Date between 1680 and 1683

Artist Christophe Veyrier

Life Dates 1637-1689

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. ----------

Medium Terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 24 7/8 × 11 × 13 inches (63.2 × 27.9 × 33 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund and Benson and Edith Ford 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. 1987.6

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Provenance

private collection (Marseilles, France);
art market (Paris, France);
(Heim Gallery, Paris, France);
(Old Masters (Painting and Sculpture) Ltd.);
1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Notes on recent acquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 1 (1988): p. 58 (ill.).

Darr, A.P. "European sculpture and decorative arts acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts 1978-87." The Burlington Magazine 130, no. 1023 (June 1988): p. 496 (fig. 103) (ill.).

"From Marseilles to Detroit: Two Sculptures Attributed to Puget and Veyrier.'" Antologia di Belle Arti: La scultura, no. 48-51 (1994/1995): pp. 42-52.

Pierre Puget: Architect, sculpteur, peintre. Exh. cat., Centre de la Vieille Charité. Marseilles, 1994, pp. 339, 343 (fig. 83).

Chevalier, Alain, Michel Hilaire, and Pierre Stépanoff. De Marbre Blanc et de Couler: La chapelle Deydé de la cathédrale de Montpellier. Exh. cat., Musée Fabre. Montpellier, 2019, pp. 101-102, (fig. 25).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Christophe Veyrier, Clio, Muse of History, between 1680 and 1683, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund and Benson and Edith Ford Fund, 1987.6.