FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE

cast c. 1693-1710 after an original commissioned in 1674;probably cast in the late eighteenth century;cast c. 1693-1716 from original marble 1677/1681 (Marsy) and 1684/1687 (Flamen);c. 1700 bronze;bronze;bronze;bronze;bronze group;group;statuette;group;group

1 1 11 3 3 7 7 5 41 ?8 x 21 ?16 x 17 ?16 in.;21 ?4 x 12 ?8 x 10 ?16 in.;H. 21 in.;21 x 11 ?16 x 10 ?8 1 1 7 1 1 1 in.;22 ?2 x 11 ?4 x 11 ?16 in.;39 ?2 x 18 ?2 x 19 ?2 in.

Acc. No.: 88.SB.74;74.SB.18;1986.74.2;1961.40;79.20 Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde;Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise Haskell Daly Fund, 1961.40;The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund

Photo credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington;2009 President and Fellows of Harvard College;ph. courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art © Artist :

Provenance

1788, December 18, Paris, Antoine-Alexandre Dubois sale, no. 168 (paired with The Rape of Proserpina by François Girardon, also at the J. Paul Getty Museum), bronze and pedestals from the Louis XIV period, acquired by a certain Berotaire for 5,599 livres 1803, Possibly sold at the Pailletet Delaroche sale, Paris, July 11, 1803, no. 41 before 1860, baron James de Rothschild then by inheritance, successively to barons Gustave, Alain, and Eric de Rothschild, Paris 1987, December 1, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, sale, no. 112;1958, Museum purchase: Swannie Smith Zink Fund;1973, 7-8 June, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale, day 2, n. 228 Purchased by Asbjorn R. Lunde, New York 1986, Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde to the National Gallery of Art, Washington;1961, February, New York, sold by Edward R. Lubin to Fogg Art Museum through Louise Haskell Daly Fund;Paris, Jean-Georges Rueff Collection 1968, New York, M. Knoedler & Co London, Heim Gallery 1977, The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund ; 1788, December 18, Paris, Antoine-Alexandre Dubois sale, no. 168 (paired with The Rape of Proserpina by François Girardon, also at the J. Paul Getty Museum), bronze and pedestals from the Louis XIV period, acquired by a certain Berotaire for 5,599 livres 1803, Possibly sold at the Pailletet Delaroche sale, Paris, July 11, 1803, no. 41 before 1860, baron James de Rothschild then by inheritance, successively to barons Gustave, Alain, and Eric de Rothschild, Paris 1987, December 1, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, sale, no. 112;1958, Museum purchase: Swannie Smith Zink Fund;1973, 7-8 June, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale, day 2, n. 228 Purchased by Asbjorn R. Lunde, New York 1986, Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde to the National Gallery of Art, Washington;1961, February, New York, sold by Edward R. Lubin to Fogg Art Museum through Louise Haskell Daly Fund;Paris, Jean-Georges Rueff Collection 1968, New York, M. Knoedler & Co London, Heim Gallery 1977, The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund ; 1788, December 18, Paris, Antoine-Alexandre Dubois sale, no. 168 (paired with The Rape of Proserpina by François Girardon, also at the J. Paul Getty Museum), bronze and pedestals from the Louis XIV period, acquired by a certain Berotaire for 5,599 livres 1803, Possibly sold at the Pailletet Delaroche sale, Paris, July 11, 1803, no. 41 before 1860, baron James de Rothschild then by inheritance, successively to barons Gustave, Alain, and Eric de Rothschild, Paris 1987, December 1, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, sale, no. 112;1958, Museum purchase: Swannie Smith Zink Fund;1973, 7-8 June, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale, day 2, n. 228 Purchased by Asbjorn R. Lunde, New York 1986, Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde to the National Gallery of Art, Washington;1961, February, New York, sold by Edward R. Lubin to Fogg Art Museum through Louise Haskell Daly Fund;Paris, Jean-Georges Rueff Collection 1968, New York, M. Knoedler & Co London, Heim Gallery 1977, The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund ; 1788, December 18, Paris, Antoine-Alexandre Dubois sale, no. 168 (paired with The Rape of Proserpina by François Girardon, also at the J. Paul Getty Museum), bronze and pedestals from the Louis XIV period, acquired by a certain Berotaire for 5,599 livres 1803, Possibly sold at the Pailletet Delaroche sale, Paris, July 11, 1803, no. 41 before 1860, baron James de Rothschild then by inheritance, successively to barons Gustave, Alain, and Eric de Rothschild, Paris 1987, December 1, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, sale, no. 112;1958, Museum purchase: Swannie Smith Zink Fund;1973, 7-8 June, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale, day 2, n. 228 Purchased by Asbjorn R. Lunde, New York 1986, Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde to the National Gallery of Art, Washington;1961, February, New York, sold by Edward R. Lubin to Fogg Art Museum through Louise Haskell Daly Fund;Paris, Jean-Georges Rueff Collection 1968, New York, M. Knoedler & Co London, Heim Gallery 1977, The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund ; 1788, December 18, Paris, Antoine-Alexandre Dubois sale, no. 168 (paired with The Rape of Proserpina by François Girardon, also at the J. Paul Getty Museum), bronze and pedestals from the Louis XIV period, acquired by a certain Berotaire for 5,599 livres 1803, Possibly sold at the Pailletet Delaroche sale, Paris, July 11, 1803, no. 41 before 1860, baron James de Rothschild then by inheritance, successively to barons Gustave, Alain, and Eric de Rothschild, Paris 1987, December 1, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, sale, no. 112;1958, Museum purchase: Swannie Smith Zink Fund;1973, 7-8 June, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale, day 2, n. 228 Purchased by Asbjorn R. Lunde, New York 1986, Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde to the National Gallery of Art, Washington;1961, February, New York, sold by Edward R. Lubin to Fogg Art Museum through Louise Haskell Daly Fund;Paris, Jean-Georges Rueff Collection 1968, New York, M. Knoedler & Co London, Heim Gallery 1977, The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund

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1977 Souchal François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. Illustrated Catalogue A-F, 1977, Oxford, tome I, n°18, n°32 à 35, p. 281-282;Museum's website, January 23, 2013

1977 Souchal François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: the Reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, Paul Cassirer Gallery, 1977, no. 19b, p. 282 ;Museum's website, October 8, 2015

1981 Hedin Thomas P. Hedin, "The Parterre d'eau at Versailles: An Eighteenth-Century Recollection', MIA Bulletin, 1981-1982, vol. LXV, pp. 50-65 ; Museum's website, accessed 22 March 2012 and August 6, 2018

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1977 Souchal François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. Illustrated Catalogue A-F, 1977, Oxford, tome I, n°18, n°32 à 35, p. 281-282;Museum's website, January 23, 2013

1977 Souchal François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: the Reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, Paul Cassirer Gallery, 1977, no. 19b, p. 282 ;Museum's website, October 8, 2015

1981 Hedin Thomas P. Hedin, "The Parterre d'eau at Versailles: An Eighteenth-Century Recollection', MIA Bulletin, 1981-1982, vol. LXV, pp. 50-65

Exhibitions 1888 Paris L'Art Français, Paris, 1888

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 31-July 5, 2009

2008-2009 Paris/New York/Los Angeles Cast in Bronze. French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, Edited by Geneviève Bresc- Bautier and Guilhem Scherf, with James David Draper for the English-language edition, Paris, Musée du Louvre, October 22, 2008-January 19, 2009; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 24-May 24, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, June 30-September 27, 2009, Musée du Louvre Editions / Somogy Editions d'Art, 2008, no. 69 B, p. 266-269, repr., entry by Françoise de La Moureyre (exhibited in Los Angeles only)

2015-2016 Los Angeles Louis XIV at the Getty, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, June 9, 2015- July 31, 2016;1968 London French Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th Century (Part 1), London, Heim Gallery, June 12- August 15, 1968

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 3-July 5, 2009

2011 Los Angeles/Houston Paris: Life & Luxury, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 26- August 7, 2011; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, September 18, 2011-January 2, 2012;1965 Wellesley Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Wellesley, Jewett Arts Center, March 7-27, 1965, no. 39

1967 New Haven Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 12-December 3, 1967

1968-1969 New York Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity, New York, Wildenstein Gallery, October 29, 1968- January 4, 1969, no. 24;1968 New York The French bronze 1500-1800, New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1968, no. 25

1977 London Aspects of French academic art, 1680-1780: summer exhibition, London, Heim Gallery, June 10- August 26, 1977, no. 22 ; 1888 Paris L'Art Français, Paris, 1888

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 31-July 5, 2009

2008-2009 Paris/New York/Los Angeles Cast in Bronze. French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, Edited by Geneviève Bresc- Bautier and Guilhem Scherf, with James David Draper for the English-language edition, Paris, Musée du Louvre, October 22, 2008-January 19, 2009; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 24-May 24, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, June 30-September 27, 2009, Musée du Louvre Editions / Somogy Editions d'Art, 2008, no. 69 B, p. 266-269, repr., entry by Françoise de La Moureyre (exhibited in Los Angeles only)

2015-2016 Los Angeles Louis XIV at the Getty, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, June 9, 2015- July 31, 2016;1968 London French Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th Century (Part 1), London, Heim Gallery, June 12- August 15, 1968

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 3-July 5, 2009

2011 Los Angeles/Houston Paris: Life & Luxury, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 26- August 7, 2011; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, September 18, 2011-January 2, 2012;1965 Wellesley Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Wellesley, Jewett Arts Center, March 7-27, 1965, no. 39

1967 New Haven Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 12-December 3, 1967

1968-1969 New York Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity, New York, Wildenstein Gallery, October 29, 1968- January 4, 1969, no. 24;1968 New York The French bronze 1500-1800, New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1968, no. 25

1977 London Aspects of French academic art, 1680-1780: summer exhibition, London, Heim Gallery, June 10- August 26, 1977, no. 22 ; 1888 Paris L'Art Français, Paris, 1888

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 31-July 5, 2009

2008-2009 Paris/New York/Los Angeles Cast in Bronze. French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, Edited by Geneviève Bresc- Bautier and Guilhem Scherf, with James David Draper for the English-language edition, Paris, Musée du Louvre, October 22, 2008-January 19, 2009; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 24-May 24, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, June 30-September 27, 2009, Musée du Louvre Editions / Somogy Editions d'Art, 2008, no. 69 B, p. 266-269, repr., entry by Françoise de La Moureyre (exhibited in Los Angeles only)

2015-2016 Los Angeles Louis XIV at the Getty, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, June 9, 2015- July 31, 2016;1968 London French Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th Century (Part 1), London, Heim Gallery, June 12- August 15, 1968

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 3-July 5, 2009

2011 Los Angeles/Houston Paris: Life & Luxury, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 26- August 7, 2011; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, September 18, 2011-January 2, 2012;1965 Wellesley Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Wellesley, Jewett Arts Center, March 7-27, 1965, no. 39

1967 New Haven Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 12-December 3, 1967

1968-1969 New York Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity, New York, Wildenstein Gallery, October 29, 1968- January 4, 1969, no. 24;1968 New York The French bronze 1500-1800, New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1968, no. 25

1977 London Aspects of French academic art, 1680-1780: summer exhibition, London, Heim Gallery, June 10- August 26, 1977, no. 22 ; 1888 Paris L'Art Français, Paris, 1888

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 31-July 5, 2009

2008-2009 Paris/New York/Los Angeles Cast in Bronze. French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, Edited by Geneviève Bresc- Bautier and Guilhem Scherf, with James David Draper for the English-language edition, Paris, Musée du Louvre, October 22, 2008-January 19, 2009; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 24-May 24, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, June 30-September 27, 2009, Musée du Louvre Editions / Somogy Editions d'Art, 2008, no. 69 B, p. 266-269, repr., entry by Françoise de La Moureyre (exhibited in Los Angeles only)

2015-2016 Los Angeles Louis XIV at the Getty, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, June 9, 2015- July 31, 2016;1968 London French Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th Century (Part 1), London, Heim Gallery, June 12- August 15, 1968

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 3-July 5, 2009

2011 Los Angeles/Houston Paris: Life & Luxury, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 26- August 7, 2011; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, September 18, 2011-January 2, 2012;1965 Wellesley Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Wellesley, Jewett Arts Center, March 7-27, 1965, no. 39

1967 New Haven Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 12-December 3, 1967

1968-1969 New York Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity, New York, Wildenstein Gallery, October 29, 1968- January 4, 1969, no. 24;1968 New York The French bronze 1500-1800, New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1968, no. 25

1977 London Aspects of French academic art, 1680-1780: summer exhibition, London, Heim Gallery, June 10- August 26, 1977, no. 22 ; 1888 Paris L'Art Français, Paris, 1888

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 31-July 5, 2009

2008-2009 Paris/New York/Los Angeles Cast in Bronze. French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, Edited by Geneviève Bresc- Bautier and Guilhem Scherf, with James David Draper for the English-language edition, Paris, Musée du Louvre, October 22, 2008-January 19, 2009; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 24-May 24, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, June 30-September 27, 2009, Musée du Louvre Editions / Somogy Editions d'Art, 2008, no. 69 B, p. 266-269, repr., entry by Françoise de La Moureyre (exhibited in Los Angeles only)

2015-2016 Los Angeles Louis XIV at the Getty, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, June 9, 2015- July 31, 2016;1968 London French Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th Century (Part 1), London, Heim Gallery, June 12- August 15, 1968

2008-2009 Leeds/Los Angeles Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, October 2, 2008-January 4, 2009; Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, March 3-July 5, 2009

2011 Los Angeles/Houston Paris: Life & Luxury, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 26- August 7, 2011; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, September 18, 2011-January 2, 2012;1965 Wellesley Baroque Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Wellesley, Jewett Arts Center, March 7-27, 1965, no. 39

1967 New Haven Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 12-December 3, 1967

1968-1969 New York Gods & Heroes: Baroque Images of Antiquity, New York, Wildenstein Gallery, October 29, 1968- January 4, 1969, no. 24;1968 New York The French bronze 1500-1800, New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1968, no. 25

1977 London Aspects of French academic art, 1680-1780: summer exhibition, London, Heim Gallery, June 10- August 26, 1977, no. 22 Related works

Marble group commissioned in 1674 by King Louis XIV for the park of the château de Versailles, installed in the Orangery at the château de Versailles, then in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, and currently in the Puget Courtyard at the Musée du Louvre. See also other copy in later cast, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.18. See also François GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.73.;See also other copy in earlier cast, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.74. See also its pendant: After a model by GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.17;Reduction of a group installed in the gardens of Versailles in 1687, currently in the garden des Tuileries, Paris.;Similars groups: - in Wallace Collection, London, S 169 and S 170, - in Petit Palais, Paris. Many examples in bronze exist all around the world. Bronze, after Gaspard Marsy and Anselme Flamen,, 19th century, sold by Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1991. Related to the bronze reduction group Pluto and Persephona, after Girardon, end 18th-early 19th century, in the same museum, 1986.74.1. ; Marble group commissioned in 1674 by King Louis XIV for the park of the château de Versailles, installed in the Orangery at the château de Versailles, then in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, and currently in the Puget Courtyard at the Musée du Louvre. See also other copy in later cast, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.18. See also François GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.73.;See also other copy in earlier cast, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.74. See also its pendant: After a model by GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.17;Reduction of a group installed in the gardens of Versailles in 1687, currently in the garden des Tuileries, Paris.;Similars groups: - in Wallace Collection, London, S 169 and S 170, - in Petit Palais, Paris. Many examples in bronze exist all around the world. Bronze, after Gaspard Marsy and Anselme Flamen,, 19th century, sold by Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1991. Related to the bronze reduction group Pluto and Persephona, after Girardon, end 18th-early 19th century, in the same museum, 1986.74.1. ; Marble group commissioned in 1674 by King Louis XIV for the park of the château de Versailles, installed in the Orangery at the château de Versailles, then in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, and currently in the Puget Courtyard at the Musée du Louvre. See also other copy in later cast, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.18. See also François GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.73.;See also other copy in earlier cast, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.74. See also its pendant: After a model by GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.17;Reduction of a group installed in the gardens of Versailles in 1687, currently in the garden des Tuileries, Paris.;Similars groups: - in Wallace Collection, London, S 169 and S 170, - in Petit Palais, Paris. Many examples in bronze exist all around the world. Bronze, after Gaspard Marsy and Anselme Flamen,, 19th century, sold by Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1991. Related to the bronze reduction group Pluto and Persephona, after Girardon, end 18th-early 19th century, in the same museum, 1986.74.1. ; Marble group commissioned in 1674 by King Louis XIV for the park of the château de Versailles, installed in the Orangery at the château de Versailles, then in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, and currently in the Puget Courtyard at the Musée du Louvre. See also other copy in later cast, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.18. See also François GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.73.;See also other copy in earlier cast, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.74. See also its pendant: After a model by GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.17;Reduction of a group installed in the gardens of Versailles in 1687, currently in the garden des Tuileries, Paris.;Similars groups: - in Wallace Collection, London, S 169 and S 170, - in Petit Palais, Paris. Many examples in bronze exist all around the world. Bronze, after Gaspard Marsy and Anselme Flamen,, 19th century, sold by Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1991. Related to the bronze reduction group Pluto and Persephona, after Girardon, end 18th-early 19th century, in the same museum, 1986.74.1. ; Marble group commissioned in 1674 by King Louis XIV for the park of the château de Versailles, installed in the Orangery at the château de Versailles, then in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, and currently in the Puget Courtyard at the Musée du Louvre. See also other copy in later cast, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.18. See also François GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.73.;See also other copy in earlier cast, in the same museum, inv. 88.SB.74. See also its pendant: After a model by GIRARDON, The Rape of Proserpina, in the same museum, inv. 74.SB.17;Reduction of a group installed in the gardens of Versailles in 1687, currently in the garden des Tuileries, Paris.;Similars groups: - in Wallace Collection, London, S 169 and S 170, - in Petit Palais, Paris. Many examples in bronze exist all around the world. Bronze, after Gaspard Marsy and Anselme Flamen,, 19th century, sold by Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1991. Related to the bronze reduction group Pluto and Persephona, after Girardon, end 18th-early 19th century, in the same museum, 1986.74.1.

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Museum's website, accessed August 6, 2018: Gaspard Marsy's bronze of Boreas Abducting Orithyia entwines three figures in a complex and compact spiral: a small reclining Zephyr, the young but powerful Boreas, whose puffed-out cheeks refer to his identity as the North Wind, and the struggling Orithyia, daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens. According to Greek mythology, Boreas brought Orithyia to Thrace, where the two reigned as King and Queen of the Winds. To decorate the corners of Charles LeBrun's never-completed garden at Versailles, the Parterre d'Eau, Louis XIV commissioned four monumental marble groups representing mythological abductions, each featuring three figures and symbolizing one of the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. This bronze, with Boreas as a personification of the North Wind representing Air, is based on Marsy's preparatory model for one of these statues. Since the garden was never built as planned, Louis XIV commissioned bronze reductions, or smaller scale copies, of Marsy's work and François Girardon's statue to form a pair for his Salon Ovale in the palace of Versailles. The Getty Museum's collection includes two casts of both of these works, in two different sizes. ;

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; Museum's website, October 8, 2015 : This bronze is a reduction of one of four marble sculptures representing the four elements commissioned in 1674 for the gardens of the royal palace at Versailles. Envisioned by Charles Le Brun, the leading artist and designer for King Louis XIV, it was first sculpted by Gaspard Marsy, and after his death, finished by his protege, Anselme Flamen. The group symbolizes Air, a subject taken from the ancient Roman writer Ovid's Metamorphosis, and depicts the god of the north wind Boreas abducting the Athenian princess Orithyia while battling another wind, probably the god Zephyr. Today the original marble version can be found in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Marsy was one of the foremost sculptors and decorators of the French royal palaces during the reign of Louis XIV in the seventeenth century, working at the Louvre, the Tuileries, and at Versailles.