in the manner of:

FALCONET, Etienne-Maurice

Paris 1716 - Paris 1791

Flore

Flora

c. 1775/1800

marble

group

Dimensions (HxWxD): overall (object fixed to base): 15 ¹⁄₄ x 8 diam.

inscribed on the base: 29338, a Duveen Brothers inventory number

Acc. No.: 71.176

Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Photo credit: 2012 Detroit Institute of Arts

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts

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Provenance

• Georgian Court, Lakewood, New Jersey, George Jay Gould (d. 1923)
• New York, Duveen Brothers (dealer)
• 1935, acquired from Duveen by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI
• 1971, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Bibliography

• 1904 Gonse
  Gonse, Louis, Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre des Musées de France: Sculpture, Dessins, Objets d'Art, Paris 1904, pp. 286-287
• 1908 Hildebrandt
  Hildebrandt, Edmund, É.-M. Falconet, Strasbourg 1908, p. 23, n. 3, pl. XIII, fig. 21
• 1912 Vitry
  Vitry, Paul, "Le legs de Mme Emile Masson aux Musées Nationaux", in Les Musées de France, 4 (1912), pp. 62-63
• 1922 Réau
  Réau, Louis, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, 2 vols., Paris 1922, vol. I, pp. 165-70, vol. II, p. 505
• 1939 Dodge
  A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, 2 vols., Detroit 1939, vol. 1, not paginated
• 1959 Wark
  Wark, Robert R., Sculpture in the Huntington Collection, San Marino, CA, 1959, p. 72, pls. XXIX, XXXI
• 1965 Courajod
  Courajod, Louis, ed., Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux Marchand-Bijoutier Ordinaire du Roi 1748-1758 (1873), 2 vols., Paris 1965, vol. 1, p. ccli
• 1971 Winokur
  Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51
• 1994 Hawley
  Hawley, H. H., "Tassaert's Venus, Not Falconet's Flora", in La Scultura, Studi in Onore di Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, in Antologia di Belle Arti, (1994), pp. 100-106
• 1996 Hawley
  Dell, T. et al, The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts† New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 26, p. 113-115, color ill. p. 114 (entry by H. Hawley)

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