Torchère

ca. 1775

Jean-Claude-Thomas Chambellan, Duplessis fils , Artist Charles Louis Clérisseau , Designer

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About the Artwork

Title Torchère

Artwork Date ca. 1775

Makers Jean-Claude-Thomas Chambellan, Duplessis fils (Artist) French, 1730-1783 Charles Louis Clérisseau (Designer) French, 1721-1820

Medium Ormolu and gros bleu enameled bronze

Dimensions Overall: 58 1/2 × 27 3/4 × 25 1/8 inches (148.6 × 70.5 × 63.8 cm)

Classification Furniture Accessories

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund

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. 71.395

Markings

Inscriptions Within the shaft is a penciled notation on paper: 127/1917

Provenance

Russian Imperial Collection, Gatchina Palace (Gatchina, Russia);
Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia [1759-1798];
until ca. 1930, government of the Soviet Union (USSR);
(Duveen Brothers, dealer, New York, New York, USA);
1932, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1971, sold at (Christie's, London, June 24, 1971, lot 30);
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre. Almanach des Artistes. Paris, 1777, pp. 84-86.

Sales cat., Paillet. Paris, August 21-September 7, 1797, lot 137.

Catalogue des objects d’art. Sales cat., Palais de San Donato. Florence, 1880, pp. 366-368, no. 1567 (ill.).

Réau, Louis. Étienne-Maurice Falconet, vol. 1. Paris, 1922, p. 253.

Réau, Louis. "Correspondance artistique de Grimm avec Catherine II.” L’art Francais Dan Les Pays du Nord et de l’Est de l’Europe (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles), Archives de l’art Francais 17 (1931-32): pp. 1-206.

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].

Courajod, Louis, ed. Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux Marchand-Bijoutier Ordinaire du Roi 1748-1758, vol. 1. Paris, 1965, pp. ccii-cciii; p. ccci.

Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 24, 1971, lot 30.

Stillman, Damie. "Works of Art with a Royal Provenance from the Collection of the late Mrs. Anna Thompson Dodge.” Connoisseur (May 1971): pp. 34-36 (ill.); p. 35.

Cummings, Fred J. "Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 1: Annual Report (1971): pp. 12-14; p. 13 (ill.).

"La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (January 1972): pp. 1-188; p. 93, (fig. 326).

Kalnein, Wend G., and Michael Levey. "Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France." In The Pelican History of Art. London, 1972, pp. 326- 327.

Eriksen, Svend. Early Neo-classicism in France. London, 1974, pp. 105, 174-175, 310-311, 355-356, (pls. 82, 218).

100 Of The Finest Drawings From Polish Collections. Exh. cat., Heim Gallery. London, 1980, no. 44.

Voronikhina, A. N. Vidy Zalov Ermitazha I Zimnego Dvortsa V Akvareliakh I Risunkakh Khudozhnikov Serediny Xix Veda. Moscow, 1983, (pl. II).

Ottomeyer, H., and P. Pröschel. Vergoldete Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten Des Spatbarock Und Klassizismus, vol. 1. Munich, 1986, pp. 256-257, no. 4.7.8 (ill.).

Verlet, Pierre. Les Bronzes Dorés Français Du Xviiie Siecle. Paris, 1987, pp. 203-205.

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of 18th Century French and English Art in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, pp. 134-138; p. 137 (color ill.) [entry by H. Hawley].

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Jean-Claude-Thomas Chambellan, Duplessis fils; Charles Louis Clérisseau, Torchère, ca. 1775, ormolu and gros bleu enameled bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund, 71.395.