2004.217: François Guizot (1790-1874)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2004.217

People

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)

Title

François Guizot (1790-1874)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

bust, sculpture

Date

1833

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54436

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze with brown patina

Dimensions

21.2 x 16 x 14.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• exhibition label: inside bust, paper, ink, printed and handwritten: [printed in black ink:] MUSÉE D'ART ET INDUSTRIE / SAINT-ETIENNE / CENT SCULPTEURS DE DAUMIERS / A NOS JOURS 1960 / No. [handwritten in blue ink:] 2
• foundry mark: lower edge of back, cast: MLG
• inscription: rim of lower edge, stamped: D6
• inscription: rim of lower edge, stamped: 4/30

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Galerie Sagot-Le Garrec, Paris], sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Max Wasserman, Cambridge, 1968, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004

Notes
[1] Maurice Le Garrec acquired the original terracottas

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeanne L. Wasserman in memory of Max Wasserman

Accession Year

2004

Object Number

2004.217

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Cent Sculpteurs de Daumier à nos jours, exh. cat., Musée d'Art et d'Industrie (Saint-Etienne, France, 1960), no. 2

Exhibition History

• Daumier: An Epoch Observed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/22/1989 - 07/16/1989

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