Joseph H. Hirshhorn: Collector for a Nation, Part II

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Sold by the Order of the Trustees of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Benefit its Acquisition Program

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers

Four Portrait Medallions of Intellectuals including Charles Lenormant, Pigault-Lebrun, Gaspare Spontini, and Charles Nodier

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Sold by the Order of the Trustees of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Benefit its Acquisition Program

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers

1788 - 1856

Four Portrait Medallions of Intellectuals including Charles Lenormant, Pigault-Lebrun, Gaspare Spontini, and Charles Nodier

one signed and dated David 1830 and inscribed Charles Lenormant

one signed and dated David 1831 and inscribed Pigault Lebrun

one signed and dated David 1830 and inscribed Spontini

one signed and dated David 1831 and inscribed Charles Nordier

bronze with dark brown patina

diameters: from 5 ½ to 6 inches (14 to 15.2cm)

Victor Hugo, Paris (sold: Hugo Household Estate, Paris, June 8, 1852)
Private collection, Paris, 1976
Jacques Fisher, Paris
Shepherd Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner in 1976

Sidney Lawrence, “Three Hirshhorn Acquisitions Reveal Unusual Histories” The Smithsonian Torch, no. 77-5, May 1977
H.W. Janson and Peter Fusco eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, Los Angeles, California, 1980, pp. 214-217, fig. 95, illustrated

Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Acquisitions: 1974-1977, March - July 1977
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, February 1980 - May 1981