Joseph H. Hirshhorn: Collector for a Nation, Part II

Joseph H. Hirshhorn: Collector for a Nation, Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 42. Eight Portrait Medallions depicting artists, authors, and actors including Xavier Sigalon, Henrietta Smithson, Jules-Robert Auguste, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meurice, Louise Astoud-Trolley, and Adele Hugo in a large wooden frame.

Sold by the Order of the Trustees of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Benefit its Acquisition Program

Antoine-Augustin Préault

Eight Portrait Medallions depicting artists, authors, and actors including Xavier Sigalon, Henrietta Smithson, Jules-Robert Auguste, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meurice, Louise Astoud-Trolley, and Adele Hugo in a large wooden frame

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April 6, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 4,000 USD

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Sold by the Order of the Trustees of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Benefit its Acquisition Program

Antoine-Augustin Préault

1809 - 1879

Eight Portrait Medallions depicting artists, authors, and actors including Xavier Sigalon, Henrietta Smithson, Jules-Robert Auguste, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meurice, Louise Astoud-Trolley, and Adele Hugo in a large wooden frame


each medallion inscribed Preault and four dated 1856, 1857, 1860, and 1862

patinated plaster

each, diameter: 19 inches (48.3 cm)

framed: 56 by 109 ¾ inches (142.2 by 278.8 cm)

Private Collection, France
Maurice Perret-Carnot, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, by the 1920s
Private Collection, South of France
Heim Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner in 1981
Donald Rosenthal, "A Portrait of 'Monsieur Auguste' by Preault" Extrait de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1989, p. 203, fig. 2, illustrated.
Paris, Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, 1863
Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo, Victor Hugo et les Artistes Romantiques, 1951
Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Blois, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Blois; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Auguste Preault Retrospective, February 1997 - January 1998