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DESPIAU, Charles
Mont-de-Marsan, Landes 1874 - Paris 1946Petite fille des Landes
Little Peasant Girl
1904
original plaster
head
Dimensions (HxWxD): without base: 10 1⁄4 x 6 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄8; base: 5 3⁄4 x 5 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄8 in.
signed on right side of base in pencil: C. Despiau
signed on right side of base, scratched: C. Despiau
Acc. No.: 55.21.7
Credit Line: Marquand Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org, August 9, 2011
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domainProvenance
- Piece made for Mme Despiau before her marriage
- New York, Brummer Gallery, sold to:
- 4 January 1930, New York, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- 8 December 1939, gift to New York, The Museum of Modern Art
- 1951, Marquand Fund, acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Bibliography
- 1910 Delaquys
Georges Delaquys, "Charles Despiau", L'Art et les artistes, vol. II, 1910, p. 265-266 - 1930 Deshairs
Léon Deshairs, C. Despiau, Paris, 1930, pl. 1, cat. entry 1904, p. 38 - 1938 Rouen
Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Rouen, France, Charles Despiau, Rouen, November 1938, unpaginated - 1940 MoMA Bulletin
Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, vol. 7, April 1940, p. 2 - 1942 MoMA
Painting and sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 36, no. 162
Exhibitions
- 1904 Paris
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1904, no. 1901 (this piece, the original model; called Petite fille des Landes)
1944 New York
Art in progress, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1944, p. 122 (ill.), 220 (this piece, then coll. of MoMA)
1951 New York
Modern plastic art, New York, Century Club, February-June 1951
Related works
- Second version exhibited in 1905.
3 unnumbered bronze casts, one of them in Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, on deposit in Musée d'Orsay.
Marble version, 1907, exhibited in the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1907, by owner Jacques Rouché.