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.
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