The Genius of Liberty and Wisdom
c. 1791
Artists
Dimensions
32 x 17 cm (12 5/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Provenance
Duc de Rivoli; his sale, Me Petit Laneuville, "expert," Paris, April 18-19, 1834, no. 60 (as "L'Amour admirant le buste de la Sagesse"); M.G. . . (per illegible inscription on back of cardboard support); Pierre-Jules Mène, by 1872; his son-in-law Auguste Nicholas Cain, by 1884; his son Georges Cain, Paris, by 1900; Mme Georges Can, by 1922; Cain sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 9-10, 1939, no. 68 (as "Le Génie de la Liberté ou La Sagesse"); acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1939 (Fr 20,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Related Artworks
View MoreRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and graphite
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite, guidelines in red chalk and graphite, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, brown ink, and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and white gouache on lightly faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, white gouache, black ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, guidelines in graphite
18th-19th centuryFrench