Perseus Rescuing Andromeda

ca. 1786

Joseph Chinard French, 1756-1813

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Perseus Rescuing Andromeda

Artwork Date ca. 1786

Artist Joseph Chinard

Life Dates 1756-1813

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: 23 1/2 × 10 1/8 inches (59.7 × 25.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund, and funds from Mr. and Mrs. Randolph J. Agley; with gifts from John L. Booth, Mrs. Frances G. Boynton, Mrs. William Clay, Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, Lillian Henkel Haass, Mrs. Allan Shelden, Harry G. Sperling, Robert H. Tannahill, Virginia Booth Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, City of Detroit by exchange

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. 1996.32

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, on circular base of main figural group: ESQUISSE DU I PRIX REMPORTE A ROME AU CONCOURS DE L'ANNEE 1786 PAR J. CHINARD. Inscribed, on circular plinth, above the heads of each figure: CASSIOPEE, MINERVE, ANDROMEDE, PERSE[E], VICTOIRE, NEREIDE, RENOMMEE.

Provenance

probably commissioned by M. Terray (Lyon, France);
M. le Marquis de Biron Collection;
H. F. Dawson Collection (New York, New York, USA);
(Seligmann & Co., New York, New York, USA);
Jacques Leon Stern Collection;
November 3, 1950, (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 156;
Alfred C. Chapin Collection (New York, New York, USA);
Baron Cassel van Doorn Collection;
December 9, 1955, (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 273;
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Sr. Collection;
November 29, 1975, (Sotheby Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 91;
British Railway Pension Fund Collection;
July 4, 1996, (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 87;
1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Vitry, Paul. Exposition d'oeuvre du sculpteur, Chinard de Lyon. Paris, 1909, no. 4.

Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Francaise au Dix-Huiteme Siecle. Paris, 1910, reprint, Kraus Reprint, New York, 1970, vol. I, p.198.

Rocher-Janeau, M. "Perseus et Andromee de Chinard: A propos de deux groupes du musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon." Bulletin des Musées et Monuments Lyonnais (1961): pp. 345-359, no. 2 (fig. 2).

Darr, A. T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988-1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 409, no. 12 (color ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Joseph Chinard, Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, ca. 1786, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, et al., 1996.32.