Shepherd and Shepherdess

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1790/1800

Joseph Charles Marin (Attributed to)
French, 1759-1834

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Joseph-Charles Marin
Title: Shepherd and Shepherdess
Origin: France
Date: 1790–1800
Medium: Terracotta
Inscriptions: the jug signed in incised script: Marin
Dimensions: 37.2 × 30.8 cm (14 5/8 × 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Maurice D. Galleher Endowment
Reference Number: 1973.570

Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig: W. Englemann, 1907–1950), pp. 100-01.
Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle (Paris, 1911), pp. 108–12.
Maurice Quinquenet, Un élève de Clodion, Joseph-Charles Marin (Paris, 1948), pp. 7–51.
Terence Hodgkinson, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Sculpture (Office du Livre, 1970), pp. 9, 122–23.
For comparison, see:
Chronique des arts et de la curiosite (1922), p. 151.
The Connoisser XLIX (1917), pp. 10–11.
Stella Rubinstein, “French Eighteenth Century Sculpture in the Collection of Mr. Mortimer Schiff,” Art in America 12 (1924), pp. 66–75, figs. 6 and 7.
“La Collection de Madame Louis Stern,” Les Arts (1911), p. 11, no. 119.
Beaux-arts 8 (1930), p. 14, no. 34.
Bulletin de l’art ancien et modern (1925), p. 171 (ill.).
Les Arts (1914), p. 22, nos. 477 and 478.
“Une Industrie de Luxe à Savegarder: Les Grands ‘Châteaux’ du Bordelais,” La Renaissance t. 4, pt. 2 (1921), pp. 542–46 (ills.).
Charles Avery, European Terracotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection (Washington D.C., 1981).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,” 24 January – 28 March 1976, no. 141.

Baron and Baroness Elie de Rothschild, Paris [according to copies of letters from Thomas Grange and Gerald Stiebel, 3 March 1973 and 7 April 2002, and original dealer solicitation from Rosenberg & Stiebel, 9 November 1973, in curatorial file; see also Chicago 1976 exh. cat.]. Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, by 1973; sold to the Art Institute, 1973.

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