Details
- Artist Name: Francois Girardon (French, 1628-1715)
- Title: Le Grand Dauphin
- Date: 19th century
- Medium: Marble
- Dimensions: 38 x 27 in. (96.5 x 68.6 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1965.1.111.S
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
Charles D. Mathews, Lockwood-Mathews mansion, Norwalk, Connecticut (where he lived from 1876-1938, when it was sold to the city of Norwalk).
Robert E. Farrel, Guilford, Connecticut sold to;
George H. Cobham, Flushing Long Island, sold 1946 to;
Duveen Brothers, New York (stock no. 30006) sold to;
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Masterpieces of Sculpture
- Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1949 to
La toison d'or
- Musée Communal des Beaux-Arts, 1962 to
[on loan]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965 to
Lock, Stock and Barrel: Norton Simon's Purchase of Duveen Brothers Gallery
- Norton Simon Museum, 2014-10-24 to 2015-02-16
- Seymour, Charles, Art Bulletin, p. 293
- Francastel, Pierre, Girardon: biographie et catalogue critiques, l'oeuvre complète de l'artiste, 1928,
- David, Richard S., Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1930, p. 159
- Hazlehurst, F. Hamilton, Studies in the History of Art, 1980, pp. 95-96, 106
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. D75 p. 447
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