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Cupid Secretly Drawing an Arrow

1807

Gilles-Lambert Godecharle

(Belgian, 1750–1835)

Belgium, Brussels, 19th century

Terracotta

Overall: 22.8 cm (9 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1977.72

Location

301 Baroque Sculpture Mezzanine

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed on the edge of the base at right: "Godecharle" and "1807."

Provenance
Joseph Henry Fitzhenry [1836-1913], London 1
1914
(Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Fitzhenry sale, Feb. 18-21, 1914, no. 499, sold to Lemay)
1914–
Lemay 2
Until 1929
Marius Paulme [1863-1928], Paris
1929
(Paulme sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 15, 1929, no. 320, possibly sold to Comte de Rivaud)
1929
Possibly Comte de Rivaud 3
1972
(Sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, Dec. 6, 1972, no. 49
Until 1977
(Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, Munich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1977–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

1 Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Catalogue des sculptures en marbre, terre cuite, plâtre des XVIIe, XVIIIe & XIXe siècles par ... composant la Collection de M. Marius Paulme ... May 15, 1929.
2 An annotated copy of the Fitzhenry sale catalogue notes that the Godecharle was sold to "Lemay."
3 Handwritten next to the Godecharle in a copy of the 1929 Paulme sale catalogue is the annotation, "Comte de Rivaud[?]". It is somewhat unusual for a buyer annotation to include a question mark, and the reasons for the uncertainty are unknown. Comte de Rivaud may be René Rivaud de la Raffinière (b. 1887) or Olivier Rivaud de la Raffinière (1875-1938), both members of a prominent banking family.
Citations
Hôtel Drouot. Catalogue des objets d'art ... faiences, porcelaines ... tableaux, livres ... meubles ... dont la vente après décès de M. Fitzhenry. Feb. 18-21, 1914.
Draper, James David, and Guilhem Scherf. Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Catalogue des sculptures en marbre, terre cuite, plâtre des XVIIe, XVIIIe & XIXe siècles par ... composant la Collection de M. Marius Paulme ... May 15, 1929.
Hôtel Drouot. Catalogue des objets d'art ... faiences, porcelaines ... tableaux, livres ... meubles ... dont la vente après décès de M. Fitzhenry. Feb. 18-21, 1914.
Draper, James David, and Guilhem Scherf. Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Hôtel Drouot. Catalogue des objets d'art ... faiences, porcelaines ... tableaux, livres ... meubles ... dont la vente après décès de M. Fitzhenry. Feb. 18-21, 1914.
Draper, James David, and Guilhem Scherf. Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Catalogue des sculptures en marbre, terre cuite, plâtre des XVIIe, XVIIIe & XIXe siècles par ... composant la Collection de M. Marius Paulme ... May 15, 1929.
Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Catalogue des sculptures en marbre, terre cuite, plâtre des XVIIe, XVIIIe & XIXe siècles par ... composant la Collection de M. Marius Paulme ... May 15, 1929.
Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Catalogue des sculptures en marbre, terre cuite, plâtre des XVIIe, XVIIIe & XIXe siècles par ... composant la Collection de M. Marius Paulme ... May 15, 1929.
Musée Galliéra. Objets d'art et de bel ameublement. Dec. 6, 1972.
Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, invoice, July 25, 1977, in CMA curatorial file.
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1977." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 1 (1978): 2-42. p. 38, cat. no. 9, repr. p. 17 www.jstor.org
Draper, James David, and Guilhem Scherf. L'esprit créateur: de Pigalle à Canova : terres cuites européennes, 1740-1840. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2003. cat. no. 87, p.208-209
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1988-January 15, 1989).

L'Espirit Créateur de Pigalle à Canova: Terres cuites européennes 1740 à 1840. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (September 15, 2003-January 5, 2004); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (January 30-April 23, 2004).

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