Sold by the Order of the Trustees of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Benefit its Acquisition Program
Louis Desprez
General Foy
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Estimate
700 - 1,000 USD
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Sold by the Order of the Trustees of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Benefit its Acquisition Program
Louis Desprez
1799 - 1870
General Foy
inscribed Desprez and dated 1837 (left side)
bronze with dark brown patina
height: 14 ½ inches (36.8 cm)
Heim Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner in 1977
Acquired by the present owner in 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
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Purchases by the Hirshhorn Museum, 1977-1983, September- November 1983
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Purchases by the Hirshhorn Museum, 1977-1983, September- November 1983
Jacques de Case, "La Sculpture Francaise du XIXe Siecle dans les Collections Nord-Americaines," Revue de l'Art 51, 1981, p. 69, fig. 1, illustrated
H.W. Janson and Peter Fusco eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles, California, 1980, pp. 235-236, fig. 111, illustrated
H.W. Janson and Peter Fusco eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles, California, 1980, pp. 235-236, fig. 111, illustrated
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