Sconce

between 1875 and 1900

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About the Artwork

Title Sconce

Artwork Date between 1875 and 1900

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

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 Gilt bronze

Dimensions Overall: 28 3/8 × 15 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (72.1 × 39.4 × 23.5 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. 73.218.1

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Provenance

Oakleigh Thorne, (Paris, France);
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1935, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, May 30-June 4, 1892, lots 480-483.

Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV, & XVI. Exh. cat., in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital at 25 Park Lane. London, 1933, no. 540.

Princesse Bibesco. "Trois Regnes, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI." La Renaissance 16, no. 6 (June 1933): p. 120.

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

Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 19 (May 1960): pp. 306-307.

Dauterman, Carl C., James Parker and Edith Appleton Standen. Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. London, 1964, pp. 277-279.

Sales cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries. New York, October 13-15, 1966, lot 390.

Sales cat., Sotheby Parke-Bernet. Monaco, June 14, 1982, lot 507.

Sales cat., Sotheby's. New York, May 21, 1985, lot 161.

Sales cat., Sotheby's. New York, May 21, 1988, lot 86.

Sales cat., Christie's. New York, March 22-23, 1991, lot 19.

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. 132-134, (color ill.), no. 33; p. 133 [entry by H. Hawley].

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