probably:

DEFRANCE, Jean-Pierre

Rouen, Seine-Maritime 1694 - Rouen, Seine-Maritime, 1768

Les Quatre Eléments : l'Air

The Four Elements: Air

c. 1750-1760

limestone

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): H. 7 ft 4 ³⁄₄ in.

Acc. No.: 64.93.4

Credit Line: Purchase, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1964

Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org, August 8, 2011

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Provenance

• Gardens of the Château of Mussegros, Ecouis, Eure, Joseph-Alexandre Paviot, seigneur de Mussegros, or his son-in-law Nicolas de Frémont d'Auneuil (born 1709 or 1719)
• 1964, New York, Wildenstein and Co., Inc.
• 1964, Purchase, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation, Inc. Gift

Bibliography

• 1991 Raggio
  Olga Raggio, "New galleries for French and Italian sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 118, 1991 (December), p. 238-238, ill.

Related works

• See the other three Elements, 64.93.1, 2 and 3.

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