Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Sérilly, Comtesse de Pange

1. Commissioned by Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Sérilly (1762–1799; later Comtesse de Pange), Paris; confiscated by the Revolutionary Tribunal, Paris, 1794 [this and the following according to research report by Jean Montague Massengale; in curatorial object file]; returned to the Comtesse de Pange, 1796; by descent through the family, Passy-sur-Yonne, France. Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild (1836–1905), Vienna, by 1899 [Rothschild 1903]; by descent to his nephew, Baron Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild (1878–1942), Vienna, 1905; confiscated by the Nazis, 1938 [the bust was first taken to the Zentral-Depot, Neue Burg, Vienna to be inventoried. This and the following according to AR 1080, Zentral Depot Karteien; copy in curatorial object file]; transferred to Altaussee, Austria, by 1945; recovered by Allied troops, 1945; restituted to Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild’s widow, Clarice de Rothschild (1894–1967; born Sebag-Montefiore), New York, by Dec. 5, 1947. With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1947. Private collection, United States. Jean Montague Massengale, Norton, CT; by descent to John E. Massengale III and the Jean Montague Massengale Charitable Trust; with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Nathaniel de Rothschild, Notizen über einige meiner Kunstgegenstände (Vienna, 1899 and 1903), p. 17, no. 32.
• Louis Réau, "A Great French Sculptor of the Eighteenth Century: Jean-Antoine Houdon," Connoisseur 121, 508 (1948), pp. 75 (ill.), 77.
• F. J. B. Watson, "The Nation’s Treasures: The Wallace Collection," Studio 137, 673 (1949), p. 105 (ill.).
• Ann Hill, "The Boudoir of Madame de Sérilly," Apollo 64, 377 (1956), pp. 8–11, fig. 1.
• Louis Réau, Houdon: sa vie et son oeuvre 2 (Paris, 1964), no. 174.
• H. H. Arnason, The Sculpture of Houdon (New York, 1975), p. 113, no. 151.
• Ian Wardropper, "Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo 154, 475 (2001), pp. 8–9, fig. 11.
• Ghenete Zelleke, "Gifts Beyond Measure," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28, 2 (2002), pp. 86–87, no. 54 (ill.).

Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)

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Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

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Winter

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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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Louise Brongniart

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Robert Fulton (1765–1815)

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Bather (from a fountain group)

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Young girl identified as Anne Audéoud of Geneva (1776–1840)

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