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 41. Five Portrait Medallions of Poets including Népomucène Lemercier, Zacharias Werner, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Lord Byron, and Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy  one signed and dated P.J. David 1832 and inscribed Nepomucene L. Lemercier with names of other historical figures.

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

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers

Five Portrait Medallions of Poets including Népomucène Lemercier, Zacharias Werner, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Lord Byron, and Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy one signed and dated P.J. David 1832 and inscribed Nepomucene L. Lemercier with names of other historical figures

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April 6, 02:46 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,500 USD

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

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers

1788 - 1856

Five Portrait Medallions of Poets including Népomucène Lemercier, Zacharias Werner, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Lord Byron, and Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

one signed and dated P.J. David 1832 and inscribed Nepomucene L. Lemercier with names of other historical figures


one signed P.J. David and inscribed Frederic Louis Zacharie Werner with a number of other names and dates

one signed and dated David 1830 and inscribed J. P. de Beranger

one signed David and inscribed Lord Byron

one signed and dated P.J. David 1832 and inscribed Marseille-Auguste Barthelemy

bronze with dark brown patina

diameters: from 5 3/5  to 6 ¾ inches (14.2 cm to 17.1 cm)

Victor Hugo, Paris (sold: Hugo Household Estate, Paris, June 8, 1852)
Private collection, Paris, 1976
Jacques Fisher, Paris
Shepherd Gallery, New York 
Acquired by the present owner in 1976
Sidney Lawrence, “Three Hirshhorn Acquisitions Reveal Unusual Histories” The Smithsonian Torch, no. 77-5, May 1977
H.W. Janson and Peter Fusco eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles, California, 1980, pp. 214-217, fig. 95, illustrated

 

Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Acquisitions: 1974-1977, March - July 1977
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, February 1980 - May 1981