CHINARD, Joseph

Lyon, Rhône 1756 - Lyon, Rhône 1813

Saint Augustin

St. Augustine

1781

terracotta

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 25 ³⁄₁₆ x 12 ³⁄₁₆ x 7 ⁷⁄₈ in.

on back of base: CHINARD SCULPTEUR

Acc. No.: 1997.17

Credit Line: Franck B. Bemis Fund and Mary S. and Edward Jackson Holmes Fund

Photo credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts

www.mfa.org

Provenance

• 1781, Lyon, M. Charcot commissioned the statuette for his private chapel
• Lyon, to his daughter, Mme Molllière
• Lyon, by descent within the family to M and Mme Mollière
• Lyon, sold by M and Mme Mollière to Galerie Michel Descours
• 1997, March 26, Lyon, sold by Michel Descours to the MFA

Bibliography

• Museum's website, 20 March 2012

Related works

• Saint Paul, terracotta, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, acc. no. 1997.18.

Comment

• Museum's website, July 22, 2011:
  Chinard was the most gifted artist in Lyon during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This beautifully modeled statuette - Chinard's earliest known documented work - was commissioned for the private chapel of the Charcot family at their estate near Lyon. Strongly influenced by the seventeenth century Italian Baroque style, the statuette was conceived as finished sculpture, not as model for larger work in another medium.

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