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Attributed to Jean-Antoine Houdon

Sorrow Consoled by Justice Who Points to Fame (Project for the Tomb of Monsieur Guillard), 1774

Description

Maker

  • Attributed to Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1741-1828, French

Title

Sorrow Consoled by Justice Who Points to Fame (Project for the Tomb of Monsieur Guillard)

Year

1774

Medium

Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and wash, white heightening on tan laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • watercolor,
  • ink,
  • charcoal

Supports

  • tan laid paper

Dimensions

34.3 x 43.2 cm (13 1/2 x 17 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pen and ink, LL: "Houdon inv. 1774"

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

29.084

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Mrs. Eliza Radeke acquired this unusual and important drawing for the RISD Museum at a Paris auction in 1929 through her art agent, Martin Birnbaum. It had been shown that same year at the centenary exhibition of Houdon’s work at the Palace of Versailles. Since then, it has come to light that the present drawing is the only work on paper by the eminent sculptor Houdon to be universally accepted as authentic. Created as a study for the sculptural tomb of Monsieur Guillard, who was a member of the highest chamber of Parliament and who died in 1772, the artist employed allegorical figures in classical dress to honor the deceased. Sorrow, seated languidly in the foreground, is directed by the figure of Justice toward Fame. Fame hangs a medallion portrait of Guillard on a classical column. If completed, the figural grouping would have been quite remarkable for freestanding sculpture; however, no related three-dimensional work survives.

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

The Age of Canova

November 6 - December 15, 1957

Exhibition of 18th-Century Drawings and Watercolors

April 16 - December 3, 1948

Use

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