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HOUDON, Jean-Antoine


Versailles, Yvelines 1741 - Paris 1828

France 19th century


Louise Brongniart

Louise Brongniart

19th or early 20th century, before 1928, after a model of 1777

marble

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): H. 18 1⁄8 including socle; socle: diam. 7 1⁄4 in.

on the back: houdon f.

Acc. No.: 85.SA.220

Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Photo credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain; © Artist : public domain

Los Angeles, California, The J. Paul Getty Museum

www.getty.edu/museum

Provenance

  • Poland, part. coll. [?] ("que l'on dit provenir d'une grande collection de Pologne" Vitry, 1928(2), p.62; "descendant d'une grande famille polonaise" Réau 1928(2), p.323)
  • by 1928, G. Franck
  • 1928, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.
  • after 1928-no later than 1947, Baron Henri (James Nathaniel Charles) de Rothschild (1872-1947)
  • ?-1978, Unknown Collection
  • 1978, February 5-6, Monte Carlo, Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaco S.A., lot 112, sold to Black-Nadeau Ltd.
  • 1978-about 1980, Black-Nadeau Ltd.
  • 1979, Exported from France
  • about 1980, sold to Michael Le Marchant for the Le Marchant Trust
  • about 1980-no later than 1985, Le Marchant Trust, transfered from the trust to Bruton Gallery Limited by Michael Le Marchant, an owner of Bruton Gallery
  • after 1980-1985, Bruton Gallery Incorporated
  • 1985, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bibliography

  • Museum's website, accessed 22 March 2012 and August 6, 2018
  • 1928 [Buvelot]
    Exposition du Centenaire de Houdon, exh. cat., Paris, Galeries Buvelot, 1928, no. 8 bis
  • 1928 Réau
    Louis Réau, "Notes Critiques sur les Expositions du Centenaire de Houdon." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1928), p. 323
  • 1928 Vitry
    Paul Vitry, "L'Exposition du Centenaire de Houdon à Versailles." La Revue de l'Art 54, no. 297 (June 1928), pp. 62-63, ill.
  • 1928 Réau
    Louis Réau, "Les Expositions du Centenaire de Houdon." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1928), pp. 351-52, ill.
  • 1928 [Illustrated London News]
    "The Houdon Centenary Celebrated This Year." The Illustrated London News, December 22, 1928, p. 1204, ill.
  • 1929 Giacometti
    Georges Giacometti, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Houdon (Paris: A. Camoin, 1929), p. 22
  • 1930 Réau
    Louis Réau, Houdon, Biographie critique, Illustrée de vingt-quatre planches hors texte (Paris: Librairie Renouard, 1930), pl. 6
  • 1949 Seymour
    Charles Seymour, Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1949), p. 183, under no. 52-53
  • 1964 Réau
    Louis Réau, Houdon, Sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris: F. De Nobele, 1964), vol. 1, p. 108; vol. 2, p. 27 (no. 93.3.1), 66, and pl. 93D
  • 1978 [Sotheby's]
    Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco. Bel Ameublement, February 5-6, 1978, p. 105, lot 112, ill.
  • 1986 [Gazette des Beaux-Arts]
    "Principales acquisitions des musées en 1985." La chronique des arts: Supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, 6th ser., 107, no. 1406 (March 1986), p. 32, no. 195, ill.
  • 1986 [Getty Journal]
    "Acquisitions/1985." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 14 (1986), pp. 177, 258, no. 231
  • 1997 Fusco
    Peter Fusco, Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997, p. 29, repr.
  • 2003 Poulet, Scherf et al.
    Anne Poulet with Guilhem Scherf, Ulrike D. Mathies, Christoph Frank, et al. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment (Washington DC, National Gallery of Art in association with the University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 127 and 132
  • 2004 Poulet, Scherf et al.
    Anne Poulet, Guilhem Scherf, Ulrike D. Mathies, Christoph Frank, et al. Houdon (1741-1828) Sculpteur des Lumières, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris), pp. 127 and 132, under no. 16, entry by Guilhem Scherf

Exhibitions

  • 1928 Paris

    Exposition du Centenaire de Houdon, Paris, Galeries Buvelot, June 5-July 5, 1928


     

Comment

  • Museum's website, accessed 22 March 2012 and August 6, 2018:
    The bust derives from a masterpiece of children's portraiture by Jean-Antoine Houdon: the Bust of Louise Brongniart (1772-1845) in terracotta created in 1777 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Houdon's busts of Louise and her brother Alexandre, children of the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, were very popular in the 19th and 20th centuries; they were abundantly reproduced.