Maternity

ca. between 1793 and 1795

Joseph Charles Marin French, 1759-1834

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About the Artwork

Title Maternity

Artwork Date ca. between 1793 and 1795

Artist Joseph Charles Marin

Life Dates 1759-1834

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, painted and gilded wood

Dimensions Overall: 17 1/4 × 11 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (43.8 × 30.2 × 29.2 cm) Overall (sculpture): 17 1/4 × 11 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (43.8 × 30.2 × 29.2 cm) Overall (base): 3 3/16 × 11 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (8.1 × 30.2 × 29.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema

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. 71.294

Markings

Signed Signed, on circular drum: MARIN

Marks Marks, in red, painted on carved gilt wood Louis XVI plinth: 758B

Provenance

M. Pillot;
Marquis de Karrefort (?);
1911, purchased by (Jacques Seligmann, Paris, France);
sold to George Blumenthal (New York, New York, USA);
Mortimer L. Schiff [d. 1931];
by descent to his son, John Mortimer Schiff (New York, New York, USA);
June 22-23, 1938, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Mortimer L. Schiff estate sale, lot 29;
1938, purchased by (Jacques Seligmann and Company, Paris, France) [for 950 guineas];
purchased by (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
ca. 1938-1939, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
June 24, 1971, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Anna Thomson Dodge sale, lot 6;
Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema;
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Salon of 1795. Paris, 1795, no. 1062.

Académie Royale de Peinture et de Scupture, Collection des Livrets des Anciennes Expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'à 1800, vol. 38. Paris, 1871, p. 69 [Salon of 1795], no. 1062.

Lami, S. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'École Française au XVIIIène Siècle, vol. 2. Paris, 1910-1911, pp. 109, 112.

Wehle, Harry B., and Preston Remington. French Painting and Sculpture of the XVIII Century. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1935, no. 117.

Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 22-23, 1938, lot 29.

Quinquinet, M. Un Élève de Clodion, Joseph-Charles Marin, 1759-1814. Paris, 1948, pp. 13-14, 55-56.

Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 24, 1971, lot 6.

Cummings, F.J. "Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 1: Annual Report (1971) pp. 12-14; p. 13 (ill.).

Darr, Alan Phipps. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, p. 22 (fig. 005).

Poulet, Anne L., and Guilhem Scherf. Clodion 1738-1814. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1992, pp. 405, 407 (fig. 222).

Joseph-Charles Marin 1759-1834. Exh. cat. Galerie Patrice Bellanger. Paris, 1992, p. 14.

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, pp. 105-108, no. 23, (color ill.); p. 107.

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Joseph Charles Marin, Maternity, ca. between 1793 and 1795, terracotta, painted and gilded wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema, 71.294.