ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN (1759–1834), FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A BATHER
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN (1759–1834), FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
On an integrally molded circular base atop an ormolu-mounted bleu de turquin base
30 in. (76.3 cm.) high, without base

Provenance

Collection Lehmann: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4-5 June 1925, lot 56.
Collection Robert Schuhmann; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 November 1935, lot 163, acquired by following owner through A. Seligmann, Rey & Co.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst.
Anonymous sale; Gimbels, New York, 1943, lot 71A.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 13 June 1996, lot 82.

Special notice

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Further details

We would like to thank Dr. Mary Levkoff, Hearst Castle Museum Director, for her research on the Hearst provenance.

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Lot Essay

Marin's marble model of this figure is in the collection of the Louvre (inv. R.F. 2617).
This figure was most likely placed in the Princess Room of Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Sands Point, LI estate, Beacon Castle.

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