About the Artwork
Psyche Displaying Her Treasures to Her Sisters
between 1744 and 1746
François Boucher (Artist) French, 1703-1770 Beauvais Manufactory (Manufacturer) French
Wool and silk
143 1/2 x 159 3/4 inches (364.5 x 405.8 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.180
Public Domain
Markings
On rise of platform, lower center: F. BOVCHE
Provenance
October 1744, Commissioned by Luigi Riggio Saladino Branciforti-Colonna, †ambassadeur extraordinaire du Roi d'Espagne† to the court of Versailles;July 1746, Delivered to Reggio e Branciforte family (Naples, Italy);
Ernest Cronier (Paris, France);
December 1905, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit 1905);
George Jay Gould [d.1923] (Lakewood, New Jersey, USA);
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1932, Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Seidel, P. Französisches Kunstwerke des 18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin and Leipzig, 1900, pp. 190-191.
Alexander, A. "La Collection E. Cronier." Les Arts 47 (November 1905): pp. 22, 26-27.
Catalogue des tableaux...composant la collection de M. E. Cronier. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, December 4-5, 1905, lot 164.
Macfall, H. Boucher: The Man, His Times, His Art, and His Significance. London, 1908, p. 136.
Badin, J. La Manufacture de Tapisseries de Beauvais Depuis ses Origines Jusqu'a nos Jours. Paris, 1909, pp. 33, 60.
Göbel, H. Wandteppiche, Part 2: Die Romanischen Länder, vol. 1. Leipzig, 1928, p. 226.
Spretti, V. Enciclopedia Storico-Nalidiare Italiana, V. Milan, 1932 [or 1933], p. 643.
A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, [unpaginated].
Weigert, R.-A. "La Manufactue Royale de Tapisseries de Beauvais en 1754." Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1933): pp. 230, 232.
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, [unpaginated].
"The Rice Bequest." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 35 (November 1939): [unpaginated].
Salet, F. La Tapisserie Française du Moyen-Age a nos Jours. Paris, 1946, (pl. 29).
"Recent Acquisitions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly 34 (Winter 1971): pp. 500, 504.
von Malmbourg, B., ed. Slotten. Malmö, 1971, p. 80, (ill.).
Winkour, R. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51; pp. 48-49; p. 48 (repr.).
"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux Arts 79 (January 1972): p. 96, (fig. 338), [supplement].
Ananoff, A., and D. Wildenstein. François Boucher, vol. 1. Lausanne, 1976, p. 20, no. 160; p. 149; pp. 311-312, no.193, (figs. 606-609).
Hiesinger, K. "The Sources of Francois Boucher's Psyche Tapestries." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 72 (November 1976): pp. 7-23.
Forti Grazzini, N. Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale: Gli Arrazi, vol. 2. Rome & Milan, 1993, pp. 393, 492.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York & Detroit, 1996, pp. 144-147, no. 37; p. 145 (ill.); pp. 144, 146 (det. repr.), [entry by H.H. Hawley].
Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1996, pp. 15, 62, cat. no. 16; p. 63 (color repr.); p. 14 (fig. 5) (color det. ill.), [entry by T. Albainy].
Bremer-David, C. French Tapestries & Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 1997, p. 115, cat. no. 11, (fig. 11.7 comparative image).
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François Boucher; Beauvais Manufactory, Psyche Displaying Her Treasures to Her Sisters, between 1744 and 1746, Wool and silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.180.
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