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Toilet Service of the Duchesse de Cadaval
between 1738 and 1739
Alexis Loir III (Maker) French, active 1733 - died 1785 Antoine LeBrun (Maker) French, 1702-1758 Etienne Pollet (Maker) French, active 1715 - 1751 Sebastien Igonet (Maker) French, active 1725 - 1766 or later
Silver
various dimensions
Furniture Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, and Museum Purchase, Jill Ford Murray Fund
V2014.6
Public Domain
Markings
various marks
Provenance
ca. 1738, probably commissioned by Jaime de Mello, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, or by Louis of Lorraine, prince de Lambesc;May 1739, Henriette-Julie-Gabrielle de Lorraine, Duchesse de Cadaval [1724-1761];
by descent to the family of the Dukes of Cadaval (Lisbon, Portugal);
1931, sold by 9th Duke of Cadaval;
1931, acquired by (Jacques Helft, Paris, France);
1952, Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr.;
1953-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Grigaut, P. "An Eighteenth-Century French Silver Toilet Set in Detroit."Bulletin of the DIA 33, no. 1 (1953-54): pp. 12-14.
Grigaut, P. "An Eighteenth-Century French Silver Toilet Set in Detroit." The Art Quarterly 16, no. 3 (Autumn 1953): pp. 239-247.
Comstock, H. "The Connoisseur in America." The Connoisseur 133, no. 538 (June 1954): p. 291.
"In the Museums." Antiques 67, no. 5 (May 1955): pp. 422, 428.
French, English and American Silver. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1956, no. 37.
Helft, J. Treasure Hunt. Memoirs of an Antique Dealer. London, 1957, p. 40, (ill.) pl. 8.
Brault, Solange, and Yves Bottineau. Orfèvrerie française du XVIIE siècle. 1959, pl. VII.
Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, p. 199 (ill.).
Came, Richard. Silver. 1961, p. 107.
Grigaut, P. European Decorative Arts in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1961, pp. 8, 24 (ill.).
Fregnac, C., ed. Les grands orfèvres de Louis XII à Charles X. Paris, 1965, pp. 136-137.
Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 205 (ill.).
Davis, F. French Silver 1450-1825. New York and Washington, 1970, p. 28 (fig. 44).
Whitehead, J. The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1992) p. 226 (ill.).
A Visitor's Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 210.
Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): pp. 17-21; p. 18, fig. 12 (ill.).
Carlier, Y. "Details of the Toilet Service of the Duchesse de Cadaval." Bulletin of the DIA 78, no. 1/2 (2004): pp. 4-17.
Chrisman-Campbell, K. "Dressing to Impress: The Morning Toilette and the Fabrication of Femininity." Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, ed. C. Bremer-David. Los Angeles, 2011, pp. 56-73; p. 57, fig. 35 (ill.).
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Etienne Pollet; Antoine LeBrun; Sebastien Igonet; et al., Toilet Service of the Duchesse de Cadaval, between 1738 and 1739, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, and Museum Purchase, Jill Ford Murray Fund, V2014.6.
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