COURBIER, Marcel

1898-1976

Jeune fille au chevreau

Girl Feeding Goat

1925

marble

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): 43 x 65 x 23 ¹⁄₂ in.

Acc. No.: 529-9-482

Photo credit: Courtesy Hearst Castle®/California State Parks

© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)

San Simeon, California, Hearst Castle

www.hearstcastle.org

Provenance

• No record of purchase
• North Esplanade

Bibliography

• 2000 Kastner
  Victoria Kastner, Hearst Castle. The Biography of a Country House, Principal photography by Victoria Garagliano, Foreword by George Plimpton, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000, p. 131
• 2009 Kastner
  Victoria Kastner, Hearst's San Simeon. The Gardens and the Land, Photographs by Victoria Garagliano, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2009, repr. p. 159: Hearst purchased this statue the year it was created [1929]

Related works

• A bronze copy was until 1944 in Nîmes, Jardin de la Fontaine. See: http://www.nemausensis.com/Nimes/JeuneFilleChevreau.htm.

Comment

• 2000 Kastner, p. 131:
  Cecil Beaton noted the contrast between the antique and modern statues in San Simeon's gardens: "Some of the statues, I noted with surprise, were not up to scratch, even cheapjack. Perhaps it was by intent; we'd been so overpowered by Donatellos and Della Robbias that it made the place come alive to see a nymph with bobbed hair eating an apple".

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