FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE STOUF, Jean-Baptiste Paris 1742

FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE STOUF, Jean-Baptiste Paris 1742

FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE STOUF, Jean-Baptiste Paris 1742 - Charenton-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne 1826 André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), compositeur André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), Composer 1804-1809 marble statue H. 68 in. incised on the back of the block supporting the column: CETTE STATUE DE GRETRY FUT ERIGEE EN 1804, / PAR H. DE LIVRY, / ET POSEE AU THEATRE DE L'OPERA-COMIQUE EN / 1809 incised on scroll in Grétry's left hand along with two lines of music: Duo Du Sylvain / Andante / below first line: Ave[c] ton coeur s'il est fi / below second line: dèle qu'aurais-je enco[e] à désir[er] incised on front of column (41 of the sixty-odd operas composed by Grétry for the Opéra- Comique and the Académie de Musique): La Fausse magie / Céphale et procris / Les mariag. Samnit's /Matroco. / Le jugment de Midas / L'Amant jaloux / Les Evenmens impreu / Aucassin et Nicolette / Andromaque / Colinette à la Cour / L'embarras des Riche / La Caravane / L'épreuve Villageoise / Richard Coeur-de-Lion / Panurge, / Le mariage d'Antonio / Le Comte d'Albert. & / Le Rival Confident / Les meprises par Ressemblance / Raoul Barbe bleue / Pierre-le-Grand/ Guillaume Tell / Elisca. incised on front of column: Les Vendangeuses / Isabelle et gertrude / Le Huron. / Lucile / Le tableau Parlant / .SYLVAIN. / Les Deux Avares / L'Amitié A L'épreuve / zémir et Azor. / L'Ami De la maison / Le Magnifique / La Rosière de Salenci on back of column: Le Prisonnier Anglais / Amphitryon / AsPasie / Callias / LisBeth / Anacréon& / & & & on pages of open book: MEMOIRE / OU / Essais Sur / La / Musique Acc. No.: 69.77 Credit Line: Purchase, The Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, Inc., and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation, Inc. Gift, 1969 Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org © Artist : New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org Provenance 1804, commissioned by Hippolyte, comte de Livry 1809, placed in Paris, Opéra comique, originally at the entrance to the Théâtre Feydeau Paris, subsequently moved to the various other locations occupied by the company until 1887, Paris, Salle Favart until the fire of 1887 1887, probably sold to a London dealer 1892, known to be in the shop of that London dealer Paris, collection Philippe Sichel Paris, collection Robert Kann Wildenstein 1969, Purchase, The Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, Inc., and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation, Inc. Gift Bibliography 1806 Livry Hippolyte, comte de Livry, Recueil de lettres à Grétry ou à son sujet, Paris, 1806 1807 Livry Hippolyte, comte de Livry, Recueil de mes réponses aux journalistes et de mes rebuts aux journaux, Paris, 1807 1865 Larousse Pierre Larousse ed., Grand dictionnaire universel, 1865, vol. VIII, p. 1519 1883 Grégoir E.G.J. Grégoir, Grétry, Antwerp, 1883, p. 213-214 1899 Sichel sale Philippe Sichel collection sale catalogue, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, June 22-24, 26-28, 1899, no. 113, p. 31 and ill. opp. p. 30 1907 Kann sale Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann collection: objets d'art, vol. II, Paris, 1907, no. 99, p. 12 and ill. opp. p. 12 1911 Lami Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1911, vol. II, p. 346 (said to have fetched 7,500 fr. at the Sichel sale) 1922 Grétry A.-E.-M. Grétry, Réflexions d'un solitaire, Paris-Brussels, 1922, vol. 4, p. 62-73 (chap. 20 of the original edition's sixth volume) 1937 Froidcourt Georges de Froidcourt, ed. Quarante-trois lettres inédites de Grétry à Alexandre Rousselin 1806- 1812, Liège, 1937, p. 34-35, 51-60 1970 Draper James David Draper, "A statue of the composer Grétry by Jean-Baptiste Stouf", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, N.S., vol. XXVIII, 1970 (May), p. 377-387 1975 MMA Bulletin "Notable acquisitions, 1965-1975", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1975, p. 239, ill. 1996 Scherf Guilhem Scherf, entry on Jeune fille affligée, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des sculptures, 1992-1995, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1996, p. 104 Exhibitions 1975 New York Patterns of collecting, 1965-1975, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, no catalogue no..

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