1964.6.B: Angel Carrying a Cornucopia

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1964.6.B

People

Pierre Le Pautre, French (1660 - 1744)
Previously attributed to Jean Le Pautre, French (1618 - 1682)

Title

Angel Carrying a Cornucopia

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1710

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/50741

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze, on marble plinth

Dimensions

107.95 x 66.04 x 57.15 cm (42 1/2 x 26 x 22 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Comtesse de H. (Harcourt?), sold; [Palais Galliera, Paris, March 26, 1963, lot 71]; [Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, NY], sold; purchased for Fogg Art Museum through Burr, Daly, Hyatt and Prichard Funds, January 22, 1964.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing, and William M. Prichard Funds

Accession Year

1964

Object Number

1964.6.B

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Tres importants tableaux anciens, auct. cat., Palais Galliera (Paris, March 26, 1963), Lot 71, plate XXVII
• [Reproduction only], Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1964, (Cambridge, MA, 1965).
• Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts: a Loan Exhibition, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1965), cat. no. 38
• François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV, Paul Cassirer Gallery (Oxford, England, 1981), cat no. 31

Exhibition History

• Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 03/07/1965 - 03/27/1965

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