Bacchante Carrying a Child on Her Shoulders

Artist Joseph-Charles Marin French, 1759–1834

Datecirca 1780–1796

MediumTerracotta

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 20 1/2 × 9 × 9 in. (52.1 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Willy Heineberg Bequest in honor of Spencer Hanes, by exchange; and other donors, by exchange

Object number85.3

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ProvenanceCharles-Auguste-Louis-Joseph, Duc de Morny (1811-1865); Arnold Seligman, Paris; Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore (Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, The Mrs. Henry Walters Art Collection, Vol. 1, April 23-26, 1941, lot 668, illus.); Private collection, New Jersey (Sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, March 16-17, 1956, lot 279, illus.); Private collection, New York, Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY.

Published ReferencesCollection des Livrets des Anciennes Expositions, Depuis 1673 Jusqu'en 1800: Exposition de 1795, reprinted 1871, Paris (probable mention of our piece 69).

Catalogue des tableaux anciens & modernes, objects d'arts & de curiosité composant les collections de feu M. le duc de Morny (Paris: Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif, May 31-June 12, 1865, lot 452).

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dixhuitièe siècle, Vol. 2 (Paris, 1911), 110.

M. Quinquenet, Un Elève de Clodion: Joseph-Charles Marin, 1759-1834 (Paris, 1958), 63.

Fine XVIII Century French Furniture: Terra Cotta Sculptures, Old French Pewter, Antique Silver, Texiles and Rugs (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. March 16 and 17, 1956), 53, illus. no. 279.

The Mrs. Henry Walters Art Collection, Vol. 1 (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., April 23-26, 1941), 160, illus. no. 668.

"Recent Acquisition," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1985), discussed 14-15, illus. (b-w) 14.

"How Deaccessioning Builds a Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1985-86), mentioned 16, illus. (b-w) 17.

Supplement to Gazette des Beaux-Arts no. 1406 (March 1986), 31, illus.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 136.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Bacchante Carrying a Child on Her Shoulders, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 169, 177, illus. (color) 177.

Joseph P. Covington, entry for Bacchante Carrying a Child on Her Shoulders, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 360, illus. (color) 361.
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