Countess Jean Isaac de Thelusson

1791

Jean-Antoine Houdon French, 1741-1828

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Title Countess Jean Isaac de Thelusson

Artwork Date 1791

Artist Jean-Antoine Houdon

Life Dates 1741-1828

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. Unknown

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 33 5/8 × 22 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (85.4 × 58.1 × 25.7 cm) Overall (bust): 28 1/8 × 22 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (71.4 × 58.1 × 25.7 cm) Overall (base): 5 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (13.3 × 18.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Leslie H. Green

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. 53.276

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, on back: houdon f. 1791

Provenance

Mme. Balsan (Paris, France and Palm Beach, Florida, USA);
Leslie H. Green
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Madame de Thélusson by Jean Antoine Houdon." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 33, nos. 3/4 (1953–1954): front cover, p. 76.

French Painting and Sculpture of the 18th Century. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1935, no. 14.

Exhibition Honoring Hazel Barker King. Exh. cat., Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin, 1952, no. 4.

Giacometti, G. Le Statuaire Jean-Antoine Houdon et Son Epoque. Paris, 1918-1919, vol. 1, p. 152; vol. 3, p. 235.

Girod de l'Ain, Gabriel. "Les Thellusson et les Artistes." Geneva, new series, 1956, pp 153-254, fig. 60 (ill.).

Giocometti, G. La Vie et L'oeuvre de Houdon. Paris, 1929, vol. 2, pp. 147-150.

Style, Truth and the Portrait. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Ohio, no. 62.

Brookner, A. Jacques-Louis David. New York, 1980, p. 94.

French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, pp. 14 (ill.), 19, no. 18.

Derstine, Andria. "Recent Research on Jean-Marc Nattier's 'Portrait of a Woman as a Vestal Virgin.'" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 83, no. 1/4 (2009): 22–37, pp. 28.

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