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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1938.5
People
Charles Despiau, French (Mont-de-Marsan, France 1874 - 1946 Paris, France)
Title
Head of a Young Girl
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Petite Fille des Landes
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1904
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311290

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Lost-wax process
Dimensions
actual: 27.94 x 15.24 x 20.32 cm (11 x 6 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: script, incised in proper right side of neck: C. Despiau
  • foundry mark: l.l. rear: cire Valsuani perdue

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Madame Despiau, sold (through Martin Birnbaum), to; Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Copyright
© Charles Despiau / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
1938.5
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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