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FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ORIGINALLY ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS
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A PAIR OF EBONIZED FRUITWOOD FEMALE ALLEGORICAL FIGURES
FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ORIGINALLY ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS
Each depicted seated on an arched base, one holding a laurel wreath and one a palm frond, inscribed in red paint 59.345 and 59.346, one bearing a printed paper label REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX/ECOLE DE FONTAINEBLEAU/18 Octobre - 15 Janvier 1973/Grand Palais Attribué à PILON ALLEGORIE Cleveland Museum of Art and both with later typed labels
20 in. (51 cm.) high, 24½ in. (62 cm.) and 26 in. (66 cm.) wide (2)
FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ORIGINALLY ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS
Each depicted seated on an arched base, one holding a laurel wreath and one a palm frond, inscribed in red paint 59.345 and 59.346, one bearing a printed paper label REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX/ECOLE DE FONTAINEBLEAU/18 Octobre - 15 Janvier 1973/Grand Palais Attribué à PILON ALLEGORIE Cleveland Museum of Art and both with later typed labels
20 in. (51 cm.) high, 24½ in. (62 cm.) and 26 in. (66 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
With Jacques Seligman and Co., New York.
The John L. Severance Fund, 1959.
The John L. Severance Fund, 1959.
Literature
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1966, p. 102.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1969, p. 102.
S. Beguin, 'Ecole de Fontainebleau,' La revue du Louvre, XXII (1972), pp. 401-407.
A. Gibbon, Bronzes de Fontainebleau, [Editions Frédéric Birr], 1985.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, 1969, p. 102.
S. Beguin, 'Ecole de Fontainebleau,' La revue du Louvre, XXII (1972), pp. 401-407.
A. Gibbon, Bronzes de Fontainebleau, [Editions Frédéric Birr], 1985.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Le triomphe du maniérisme européen de Michel-Ange du Greco, no. 357 [as attributed to Germain Pilon], 1955. Paris, Musée Nationaux, L'ecole de Fontainebleau, nos. 541 and 542 [as attributed to Germain Pilon], 1972.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Fontainebleau: Art in France 1528-1610, nos. 159 and 160 [as attributed to Germain Pilon], 1973. W. Wixom, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, exh. cat., Cleveland, 1975, no. 228 [as attributed to Germain Pilon].
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Fontainebleau: Art in France 1528-1610, nos. 159 and 160 [as attributed to Germain Pilon], 1973. W. Wixom, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, exh. cat., Cleveland, 1975, no. 228 [as attributed to Germain Pilon].
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