Duke of Orléans

1. Commissioned by King Louis-Philippe, France, 1833 [see Étex 1877 and Lami 1916]. Completed by Antoine Étex, Paris, 1835 [see sources cited above]. In the possession of the sculptor, Antoine Étex (died 1888), Paris; sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 25–26, 1889, for 360 francs to unknown buyer. Guy Charfnadel (Galerie Romane), Paris, before 1970 [according to commission book, 1966–70, in Heim Gallery Records, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]. Heim Gallery, London, by 1975; sold to the Art Institute, 1975.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Musée Royal, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés, 15 March 1844, cat. 2210.

• Antoine Étex, Les Souvenirs d’un artiste (Paris, 1877), pp. 197–99, 207.
• Hotel Drouot, Marbres, Bronzes, Terre Cuites, Platres, Tableaux, Aquarelles et Dessins par A. Étex, sale cat. (Hotel Drouot, Salle no. 8, February 25 and 26, 1889), p. 16, lot. 8.
• P. E. Mangeant, Antoine Étex: peintre, sculpteur et architecte, 1808–1888 (Paris, 1894), p. 35.
• Stanislas Lami, Dictionaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle 2, reprint (Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1970), pp. 297, 299.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "French Sculpture," Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1974–75 (Chicago, 1976), p. 53.
• For comparison, see:
• Bruno Chenique, “Une oeuvre inspirée par André Chénier, la Damalis d’Étex au musée de Lille,” La Revue du Louvre, no. 1 (February 1990), pp. 26-36.

Pierre Dupuis, Painter to the King

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The Petitions [right part] from The Story of Artemisia

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Gaspar Charrier, King's Secretary

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Saint Jerome

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Guillaume de Brisacier

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The Feast [central part] from The Story of Artemisia

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Gillaume de Brisacier

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Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering)

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