Pair of Firedogs

between 1770 and 1780

Pierre Gouthière French, 1732-1814

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About the Artwork

Title Pair of Firedogs

Artwork Date between 1770 and 1780

Artist Pierre Gouthière

Life Dates 1732-1814

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 Bronze

Dimensions 19 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches (49.5 × 16.5 × 47.6 cm)

Classification Furniture Accessories

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

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. 71.212.A

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Inscriptions On a circular paper label on the back: P/255/29204/2

Provenance

Marquis da Foz, Lisbon;
José Guedes de Queiroz;
June 10th, 1892, sold by (Christie's, London, England);
George Jay Gould [d. 1923], (Lakewood, New Jersey, USA);
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1932, Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

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, [unpaginated].

A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, [unpaginated].

"C. I. N. O. A." L'Oeil, no. 184 (April 1970): pp. 52-61; pp. 54-55.

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51; pp. 49, 51, 52 (ill.).

Sales cat., Nouveau Drouot. Paris, March 30-31, 1987, lot 102.

Madame du Barry, de Versailles A` Louvecinnes. Exh. cat., Musée Promenade. Marly-Le-Roi-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 & Detroit, 1996, pp. 125-126, no. 30; p. 126 (color ill.) [entry by H. Hawley].

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, between 1770 and 1780, Bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.212.A.