Un groupe en bronze de Pradier au Smart Museum of Art (U. of Chicago, U.S.A.)
22/11/04 - Question D. Siler au Smart Museum of Art:
A search on « Pradier » in your on-line database retrieves the following record:1983.42
Pradier, Jean-Jacques, 'Three Classical Goddesses'
Size: x 24.77 x in. x 9 3/4 x cm. [sic]
Media: bronze, fragment of a larger composition
Description:
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. John N. Stern
Curator's Object Class: WESTERN / EUROPEAN
Curator's Object Type: SCULPTURE / PRE-1900
Registrar's Object Type: SCULPTUREI understand that no photo of this work is available. Would it be possible to obtain a brief description which would help me to identify it? I would like to know in particular if the three Goddesses are standing nude figures, all facing in the same direction (in which case the work must be a reduction of Pradier's famous marble group, The Three Graces, which belongs to the Louvre) or if they are in a different pose, perhaps standing around a column. I am also wondering why the work is considered to be a « fragment of a larger composition ».
22/11/04 - Réponse Anne Leonard (Mellon Projects Curator, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art):
I am sorry to say that the Pradier sculpture you mention is no longer with the museum, and we have no photographs of it. In fact this work should be removed from the database, which we will do. Again, I am sorry we cannot be more helpful with your inquiry.
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